Zipline: find_packages() got an unexpected keyword argument 'include'

[sluo1989]

Dear Zipline Maintainers,

Before I tell you about my issue, let me describe my environment:

Environment

• Operating System: OSX EI Captain, 10.11.5
• Python Version: 2.7 newly installed
• How did you install Zipline: pip and from source

Now that you know a little about me, let me tell you about the issue I am
having:

Description of Issue

sudo python setup.py install

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 273, in
packages=find_packages(include=['zipline', 'zipline.*']),
TypeError: find_packages() got an unexpected keyword argument 'include'

I then try to update both pip and setuptools==3.3, and 23.0.0 as well
all gave me same results...

Sincerely,
Shikai

[richafrank]

Hi @sluo1989 ,

Seems like a setuptools version issue? Locally, setup.py runs for me, and in the repl, I see:

(Pdb) inspect.getargspec(find_packages)
ArgSpec(args=['cls', 'where', 'exclude', 'include'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=('.', (), ('*',)))
(Pdb) find_packages.__module__
'setuptools'
(Pdb) import setuptools
(Pdb) setuptools.__version__
'21.0.0'

It also works for me, though, with setuptools 23.0.0. I have

>>> pip.__version__
'8.1.2'

What does the signature of find_packages look like for you, and where is it defined?

[sluo1989]

Hi Richard,

Thank you so much for your reply:-)
I guess although I have installed the latest version of setuptools package, python still points to the old version setuptools (system python's I guess), however I have set the default python as the one I installed.

Do you know how to specify the specific setuptools' s version? Many thanks!

Best,
Shikai

[richafrank]

Do you know how to specify the specific setuptools' s version?

My method of choice to install a particular version in my python env is:

pip install setuptools==<specific version>

or (upgrading to the latest):

pip install -U setuptools

but it sounds like you've already done that, so I'm not sure...

[benjaminsweetnam247]

couldn't get any of this to work myself but this worked
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o - | sudo python
I added the sudo before python due to a permissions error

[patrickcat]

Python 3.4.0 on Mac OS hit this error again.

[xexiyong]

Do you know how to specify the specific setuptools' s version?

My method of choice to install a particular version in my python env is:

pip install setuptools==<specific version>

or (upgrading to the latest):

pip install -U setuptools

but it sounds like you've already done that, so I'm not sure...

upgrade the setuptools is the right way for me, Thank you

[allantargino]

Upgrating setuptools worked for me too, thanks!

[ssanderson]

Looks like this has been resolved as a setuptools version issue.