Question

I am new to git, and deployed my first python-django app via github:
https://github.com/staticdev/django-crud-utils

The problem is that, when I try to install it, I get the error:

$ pip install -e git://github.com/staticdev/django-crud-utils.git#egg=django-crud-utils
Obtaining django-crud-utils from git+git://github.com/staticdev/django-crud-utils.git#egg=django-crud-utils
  Updating /home/static/virtualenvs/prp2/src/django-crud-utils clone
  Running setup.py egg_info for package django-crud-utils
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
      File "/home/static/virtualenvs/prp2/src/django-crud-utils/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
        DESC = " ".join(__import__('crud_utils').__doc__.splitlines()).strip()
    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

  File "/home/static/virtualenvs/prp2/src/django-crud-utils/setup.py", line 15, in <module>

    DESC = " ".join(__import__('crud_utils').__doc__.splitlines()).strip()

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines'

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /home/static/virtualenvs/prp2/src/django-crud-utils
Storing complete log in /home/static/.pip/pip.log

Any help?
Tks in advance.

Answer 1

You don’t have a docstring on the crud_utils package, thus installation fails.

You can get the same error by just running the setup.py module locally:

python setup.py

Add a docstring to your crud_utils/__init__.py module:

"""Some docstring here would help"""

_{^{P.S. You also checked in the .pyc byte-compiled cache files into GitHub, you may want to remove those.}}