pip3 fails to install fts-rest client

[paulmillar]

When I attempt to install fts-rest package using python3 (== pip3) the installation fails:

paul@sprocket:~$ pip3 install fts3-rest
Collecting fts3-rest
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3d/06/e5bb9d6b78ef6a93cef4a9f161f9e46e8694ae9de649cffa03fed31d8542/fts3-rest-3.9.4.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-9zcbjuzw/fts3-rest/setup.py", line 15
        print "Applying workaround for M2Crypto in RedHat"
                                                         ^
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Applying workaround for M2Crypto in RedHat")?
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-9zcbjuzw/fts3-rest/
paul@sprocket:~$ 

It looks like this print statement (mistakenly) follows the old (python 2) syntax.

[mpatrascoiu]

Hello Paul,

This repository (fts-rest) is not Python3-compatible.
I assume doing pip3 install, you get the Python2 version in-fact.

We have a Python3 version (+ ported to Flask) in the fts-rest-flask repository.
The plan is in the future for that project to replace the fts-rest repository.

For the moment, our fts-rest deployment is done via RPMs.
In the future, we plan to provide an fts3 package (via pip) which will contain only the Python3-version client part and have fts3-rest removed.

For the moment, your best bet unfortunately is still RPMs.

[paulmillar]

Thanks for the explanation Mihai,

I'm not using the FTS client very often, so this isn't so urgent.

Also, as long as python v2 is working, I don't need to use python v3 (but see #18).

Working with RPMs is somewhat awkward on my Debian machine, but (if needs must) I can probably do something to make it work.

Cheers,
Paul.