"TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object" while installing django-geojson

[khink]

"TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object" while installing django-geojson

[khink]

Thanks for thinking of that.

Turns out it was a recent setuptools: 71.1.0. I just upgraded it and tried again:

$ pip install --upgrade setuptools
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in ./env/lib/python3.9/site-packages (71.1.0)
Collecting setuptools
  Downloading setuptools-72.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.6 kB)
Downloading setuptools-72.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (2.3 MB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2.3/2.3 MB 2.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: setuptools
  Attempting uninstall: setuptools
    Found existing installation: setuptools 71.1.0
    Uninstalling setuptools-71.1.0:
      Successfully uninstalled setuptools-71.1.0
Successfully installed setuptools-72.1.0

However, same result.

I created this repo to reproduce it: https://github.com/khink/pip-tools-issue-2118

Apparently the bug only surfaces in combination with these other requirements.

[AndydeCleyre]

Great! OK, so I can confirm that this reproduces here, and it's failing on processing django-geojson 1.2.0, and can be worked around by making the requirement django-geojson>1.2.0. And also that a plain:

$ pip install django-geojson==1.2.0

fails the same way. It looks like that version depends on an uninstallable version of geojson.

pip-tools should probably just reject a failed version like this and keep trying others.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

This is a bug in the project, nothing pip can do about a broken package

[khink]

Hi, first off: thanks for taking the time to look into this!

pip install django-geojson==4.1.0 just works. How can i show the django-geojson maintainers what is wrong?

Edit: The error above seems to indicate it fails in the python setup.py egg_info step, but the following just works:

git clone [email protected]:makinacorpus/django-geojson.git
cd django-geojson/
git checkout 4.1.0
python3.11 -m venv env
. env/bin/activate
python setup.py egg_info

Not sure how to reproduce the error.

[AndydeCleyre]

I can't reproduce with this info yet, but can you ensure you're using the latest setuptools in the venv with the problem?