Install confluent-kafka avro with pip

Question

I'm trying to install the avro package for confluent-kafka with python3 on macOs Sierra.

Installing the confluent-kafka package works fine, no issues. The problem is when I try to install the avro package:

pip install confluent-kafka[avro]

I just get an error message from the bash, saying:

no matches found: confluent-kafka[avro]

How can I install this package? Anyone else that have managed to do it on mac?

Answer 1

Assuming you are not using bash (in my case it was zsh), the [] might mess with your shell. The following should solve this:

pip install "confluent-kafka[avro]"

For me this worked with the default install from pypi, no need for the github URL.

Answer 2

Try installing directly from github

pip install git+git://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python.git