[AVRO-2240] egg_info fails for avro-python3 using python2

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Component/s: python
• Assignee: Michael A. Smith
• Reporter: Luke Zulauf
• Created: 08/Oct/18 17:42
• Updated: 08/Nov/18 17:52
• Resolved: 07/Nov/18 22:15

Description

When managing dependencies, the ability to call egg_info on any package is especially useful (even if the package is not valid for installation with a specific python version).

For example, pipenv can't build a lockfile in python2 if avro-python3 is listed as a dependency (for any python version)

 

The opposite works (using python3 to check the egg_info of avro (the python2 version).

 

$ python3 avro/setup.py egg_info
(succeeds)
$ python2 avro/setup.py egg_info
(succeeds)
$ python3 avro-python3/setup.py egg_info
(succeeds)
$ python2 avro-python3/setup.py egg_info
(fails)

It would be great if you didn't raise an assertion error for all usages of running setup.py, especially when running egg_info.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #347