[yt-users] pyfits error

David Collins dcollins4096 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 19:27:01 PDT 2017


Hi, John--

Thanks.  That worked out great.

d.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:46 PM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> I should note that pyfits is very, very deprecated, in favor of astropy’s
> FITS I/O routines:
>
> http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/io/fits/
>
> AstroPy has stable conda builds.
>
> You can get the same effect as pyfits (with the same API) if you do:
>
> import astropy.io.fits as pyfits
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
> On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:07 PM, David Collins <dcollins4096 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Everybody!
>
> I'm trying to install pyfits on stampede, and I"m running into an error:
>
> """
>  Setup script exited with error in setup command: Error parsing
> /tmp/easy_install-s4Mxa7/stsci.distutils-0.3.7/setup.cfg: TypeError:
> super() argument 1 must be type, not None
> """
>
> Has anyone see that before, and know what to do about it?  The python I'm
> using is the one dowloaded with yt this afternoon, 2.7.13.  This happens if
> I use both pip and from the git repository of pyfits.
>
> Thanks,
> d.
>
>
> Installed /tmp/easy_install-s4Mxa7/stsci.distutils-0.3.7/.eggs/
> d2to1-0.2.12.post1-py2.7.egg
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 14, in <module>
>     zip_safe=False
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py",
> line 111, in setup
>     _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 325, in __init__
>     self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs['setup_requires'])
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 444, in fetch_build_eggs
>     replace_conflicting=True,
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 854, in resolve
>     dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1126, in
> best_match
>     return self.obtain(req, installer)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1138, in obtain
>     return installer(requirement)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 516, in fetch_build_egg
>     return cmd.easy_install(req)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 672, in
> easy_install
>     return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 698, in
> install_item
>     dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 879, in
> install_eggs
>     return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1118,
> in build_and_install
>     self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
>   File "/home1/00369/tg456484/local-yt-2017-07-24/yt-conda/lib/
> python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1106,
> in run_setup
>     raise DistutilsError("Setup script exited with %s" % (v.args[0],))
> distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error in setup
> command: Error parsing /tmp/easy_install-s4Mxa7/
> stsci.distutils-0.3.7/setup.cfg: TypeError: super() argument 1 must be
> type, not None
>
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