bug: ImportError: cannot import name 'packages_distributions' from 'importlib_metadata'

[sabotagebeats]

Environment information

ape will not run after install

$ ape --version
# ...copy and paste result of above command here...

$ ape plugins list
# ...copy and paste result of above command here...

• Python Version: 3.8.10
• OS: ubuntu 20.04LTS server linux

What went wrong?

$ ape --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sabotage/.local/bin/ape", line 5, in <module>
    from ape._cli import cli
  File "/home/sabotage/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ape/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .api.contracts import _Contract
  File "/home/sabotage/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ape/api/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .accounts import AccountAPI, AccountContainerAPI
  File "/home/sabotage/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ape/api/accounts.py", line 7, in <module>
    from ape.types import ContractType
  File "/home/sabotage/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ape/types/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .contract import ABI, Bytecode, Checksum, Compiler, ContractType, Source
  File "/home/sabotage/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ape/types/contract.py", line 5, in <module>
    from ape.utils import compute_checksum
  File "/home/sabotage/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ape/utils.py", line 12, in <module>
    from importlib_metadata import PackageNotFoundError, packages_distributions, version
ImportError: cannot import name 'packages_distributions' from 'importlib_metadata' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py)

How can it be fixed?

I'm not sure if this is a path error or what

[fubuloubu]

Are you running this with Python 3.6 or 3.7?

[sabotagebeats]

running this with python 3.8. I noticed I got this error when I'm in the wrong pyenv before installing ape. so i tried this:

~/ape/ape$ pyenv virtualenv freshape
~/ape/ape$ pyenv activate freshape
~/ape/ape$ pip install -e .
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Installing collected packages: eth-ape
  Attempting uninstall: eth-ape
    Found existing installation: eth-ape 0.1.0a16
    Uninstalling eth-ape-0.1.0a16:
      Successfully uninstalled eth-ape-0.1.0a16
  Running setup.py develop for eth-ape
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/home/sabotage/ape/ape/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/home/sabotage/ape/ape/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' develop --no-deps --user --prefix=
         cwd: /home/sabotage/ape/ape/
    Complete output (18 lines):
    running develop
    WARNING: The user site-packages directory is disabled.
    error: can't create or remove files in install directory
    
    The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
    installation directory:
    
        [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/test-easy-install-99759.write-test'
    
    The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
    the distutils default setting) was:
    
        /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/
    
    This directory does not currently exist.  Please create it and try again, or
    choose a different installation directory (using the -d or --install-dir
    option).
    
    ----------------------------------------
  Rolling back uninstall of eth-ape
[truncated]
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/home/sabotage/ape/ape/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/home/sabotage/ape/ape/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' develop --no-deps --user --prefix= Check the logs for full command output.

[fubuloubu]

running this with python 3.8. I noticed I got this error when I'm in the wrong pyenv before installing ape. so i tried this:

This looks like pyenv isn't doing the job of segregating by virtualenv correctly... which is strange. Let's work through this together.

[sabotagebeats]

this was an issue with pyenv, and the appropriate pyenv was not added to the ~/.bashrc

# So pyenv gets recognized
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.pyenv/bin"
eval "$(pyenv init --path)"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

then run source ~/.bashrc

after this my pyenv was installed in the wrong place

$ pyenv virtualenvs
  apeworx (created from /usr)

so i deleted my pyenv and recreated it and it looks right

$ pyenv virtualenv-delete apeworx
$ pyenv virtualenv apeworx && pyenv activate apeworx
$ which python
/home/sabotage/.pyenv/shims/python
$ pyenv virtualenvs
  apeworx (created from /home/sabotage/.pyenv/versions/3.8.10)

once I did that my eth-ape was still in the wrong place

$ which ape
/usr/local/bin/ape
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/ape
$ pip install eth-ape
Successfully installed eth-ape-0.1.0a17
$ which ape
/home/sabotage/.pyenv/shims/ape
$ ape --version
0.1.0a17

ok great now this is looking good