python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code

Question

I am trying to install textract and am getting error messages> I'm using Anaconda so I tried:

pip install -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/pypi/simple textract

I got the following error:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-4rh6j3p5\Ebo

I also tried:

pip install textract

and got the same error.

First I tried to upgrade setup_tools:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

but it says it's already up-to-date

I also tried:

pip install ez_setup

but is says the requirement is already satisfied. I didn't think this would be the issue because I can use pip to install other packages, just not this one.

However, when I try to run ez_setup:

python ez_setup.py

I get this error:

TypeError: chown() missing 1 required positional argument: 'numeric_owner'
PS C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages>

Which I'm not sure is related or not. I also tried:

easy_install textract

And got this error:

Searching for textract
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/textract/
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/23/4d/0141a229be5edfc5d41efbf7757c050df9820cdee38eae67c08788269152/textract
-1.5.0.tar.gz#md5=29ac38f836a6e6146962d2d70505ffa5
Best match: textract 1.5.0
Processing textract-1.5.0.tar.gz
Writing C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-sd7jvx24\textract-1.5.0\setup.cfg
Running textract-1.5.0\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-sd7jvx24\textrac
t-1.5.0\egg-dist-tmp-d1fv4qbg
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.py[co]' found under directory '*'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*~' found under directory '*'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.orig' found under directory '*'
creating c:\users\User\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\textract-1.5.0-py3.5.egg
Extracting textract-1.5.0-py3.5.egg to c:\users\User\anaconda3\lib\site-packages
Adding textract 1.5.0 to easy-install.pth file
Installing textract script to C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\Scripts

Installed c:\users\User\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\textract-1.5.0-py3.5.egg
Reading https://github.com/mattgwwalker/msg-extractor/zipball/master
Processing dependencies for textract
Searching for SpeechRecognition>=3.1.0
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/SpeechRecognition/
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/ce/0f/e14418e1797e3b6326618b3b4d1940734ed55878df64812784a7b6168eb5/SpeechRe
cognition-3.6.0.tar.gz#md5=00c6b126dc3494a71bcf57fb693e5644
Best match: SpeechRecognition 3.6.0
Processing SpeechRecognition-3.6.0.tar.gz
Writing C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-08mttkkw\SpeechRecognition-3.6.0\setup.cfg
Running SpeechRecognition-3.6.0\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-08mttkk
w\SpeechRecognition-3.6.0\egg-dist-tmp-w2rf0wr0
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
speech_recognition.__pycache__.__init__.cpython-35: module references __file__
creating c:\users\User\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\speechrecognition-3.6.0-py3.5.egg
Extracting speechrecognition-3.6.0-py3.5.egg to c:\users\User\anaconda3\lib\site-packages
Adding speechrecognition 3.6.0 to easy-install.pth file

Installed c:\users\User\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\speechrecognition-3.6.0-py3.5.egg
Searching for EbookLib
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/EbookLib/
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/04/30/2cbf65fa9587a1ecc66a78eea91f9189ead8fdadd5e009115bce34529aa6/EbookLib
-0.15.tar.gz#md5=d29882a04477c3854b1af9f6a84dc160
Best match: EbookLib 0.15
Processing EbookLib-0.15.tar.gz
Writing C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-vcyqjzub\EbookLib-0.15\setup.cfg
Running EbookLib-0.15\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-vcyqjzub\EbookLib
-0.15\egg-dist-tmp-ybq3stsw
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 157, in sav
e_modules
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 198, in set
up_context
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 255, in run
_setup
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 285, in run

  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 253, in run
ner
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 47, in _exe
cfile
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-vcyqjzub\EbookLib-0.15\setup.py", line 13, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 1671: character maps to <undefined>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('setuptools==32.3.1', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 2270, in main
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 411, in run
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 674, in easy_install
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 702, in install_item
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 747, in process_distribution
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 846, in
 resolve
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1118, i
n best_match
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1130, i
n obtain
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 674, in easy_install
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 700, in install_item
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 881, in install_eggs
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 1120, in build_and_install
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", lin
e 1106, in run_setup
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 258, in run
_setup
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\contextlib.py", line 77, in __exit__
    self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 198, in set
up_context
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\contextlib.py", line 77, in __exit__
    self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 169, in sav
e_modules
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 144, in res
ume
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\pkg_resources\_vendor\six.py", line 685,
 in reraise
    raise value.with_traceback(tb)
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 157, in sav
e_modules
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 198, in set
up_context
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 255, in run
_setup
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 285, in run

  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 253, in run
ner
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-32.3.1-py3.5.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 47, in _exe
cfile
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-vcyqjzub\EbookLib-0.15\setup.py", line 13, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\User\Anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 1671: character maps to <undefined>

Is there anything else I could try?

Answer 1

To start you could try running pip check textract which will verify any dependencies needed for the packed in question.

So it looks like you are running windows, which doesn't seem to be currently supported for textract. See here

You may need the following libraries, and maybe others as well.

1. libxml2 2.6.21 or later is required by the .docx parser which uses lxml via python-docx.
2. libxslt 1.1.15 or later is required by the .docx parser which users lxml via python-docx.
3. python header files are required for building lxml.
4. antiword is required by the .doc parser.
5. pdftotext is optionally required by the .pdf parser (there is a pure python fallback that works if pdftotext isn't installed).
6. pstotext is required by the .ps parser.
7. tesseract-ocr is required by the .jpg , .png and .gif parser.
8. sox is required by the .mp3 and .ogg parser.

You need to install ffmpeg , lame , libmad0 and libsox-fmt-mp3 , before building sox, for these filetypes to work.