Trouble installing Django: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-rcF9a5/Django/

Question

I'm trying to install Django via command prompt. I used pip install Django but got this message:

Collecting Django
  Using cached `Django-2.0.tar.gz`

Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-rcF9a5/Django/setup.py", line 32, in <module>
    version = __import__('django').get_version()
  File "django/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from django.utils.version import get_version
  File "django/utils/version.py", line 61, in <module>
    @functools.lru_cache()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lru_cache'

Command **`"python setup.py egg_info"`** failed with error code 1 in **/tmp/pip-build-rcF9a5/Django/**

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Pip is trying to install Django 2.0, which is incompatible with Python 2. You can install the latest 1.11.x release with

pip install "Django<2"

There’s an open issue on the Django ticket tracker to make pip install the correct version.

If you are just starting out with Django, it would be much better to use Python 3, because 1.11 is the last version to support Python 2.

Answer 2

To use Django 2.0 python 3 should be used. One way to do this is using a virtual environment. Create a python 3 virtual environment ( python3 -m venv myvenv ) and install Django 2.0 in it. Make sure to use pip from python 3 instead of 2.