ImportError: No module named setuptools.command on Mac OS X within virtualenv

Question

Trying to install a Python pip package (Django Rest Framework docs, drfdocs) on Mac OSX within a virtualenv:

Here are the relevant versions of pip, python, easy_install:

$ virtualenv --version
1.11.4

$ mkvirtualenv test
New python executable in test/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...done.

(test)$ python --version; which python
Python 2.7.10
/Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/bin/python

(test)$ pip --version; which pip
pip 1.5.4 from /Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)
/Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/bin/pip

(test)$ easy_install --version; which easy_install
setuptools 2.2
/Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/bin/easy_install

(test)$ python -c "import setuptools.command; print setuptools.command"
<module 'setuptools.command' from '/Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/__init__.pyc'>

And here's the error:

$ pip install drfdocs
Downloading/unpacking drfdocs
  Downloading drfdocs-0.0.11.tar.gz (771kB): 771kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/build/drfdocs/setup.py) egg_info for package drfdocs
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named setuptools.command
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>

ImportError: No module named setuptools.command

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/build/drfdocs
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/me/.pip/pip.log

I tried a variety of fixes from other Stack Overflow answers here, but none worked.

$ pip install -U setuptools

did not help either.

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EDIT: As requested:

(test)$ python -c "import setuptools; print setuptools.__file__; print setuptools.__version__"
/Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.pyc
2.2

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EDIT #2: I tried pip install pip --upgrade so now I'm on pip==8.1.2.

Now when I try to install I get a slightly different error:

(test)$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import setuptools
>>> exit()
(test)$ pip --version
pip 8.1.2 from /Users/me/.virtualenvs/test/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)
(test)$ pip install drfdocs
Collecting drfdocs
  Using cached drfdocs-0.0.11.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named setuptools

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/kc/00fkv5q91vz815b2jycc8cv40000gn/T/pip-build-olnkAD/drfdocs/

Still doesn't make sense why this is happening though.

Answer 1

This is a bug in package. See issue #120

Wait for v0.1.0 or download package from PyPI, remove site directory from this package, install patched package.