I needed to install Setuptools for a project I was doing, and I had to download Setuptools through a .tar file (don't ask), but when ran the command I needed to use to install it:
C:\Users\myname\Downloads\setuptools-51.1.1>py -2 setup.py install
It ended up with a SyntaxError:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 7, in <module>
import setuptools
File "C:\Users\myname\Downloads\setuptools-51.1.1\setuptools\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
import setuptools.version
File "C:\Users\myname\Downloads\setuptools-51.1.1\setuptools\version.py", line 1, in <module>
import pkg_resources
File "C:\Users\myname\Downloads\setuptools-51.1.1\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1365
raise SyntaxError(e) from e
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I'm using Python 2.7.
Why is it showing the error, and how can I fix it?
Edit:
When I looked into the __init__.py
file, I found that there was something called an "invalid marker":
try:
marker = packaging.markers.Marker(text)
return marker.evaluate()
except packaging.markers.InvalidMarker as e:
raise SyntaxError(e) from e
The last version of setuptools to support Python 2.7 was 44.1.1 (Jan 2020). See the changelog.
Upgrade your Python version in order to use setuptools 51.1.1.
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