fail to install cairosvg

[pmyjudy]

• Pip version: 9.0.3
• Python version: 2.7
• Operating system: windows10

Hello!
When I printed 'pip install cairosvg' in cmd, something wrong happened!

:\Users\蝌蚪眼>pip install cairosvg
Collecting cairosvg
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9d/82/0ec25a0460182aef0c57fa72926986ee091fb0689f85d0133486e5ab2059/CairoSVG-2.1.3.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "c:\users\蝌蚪眼\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-idknd4\cairosvg\setup.py", line 24, in
with open(init_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fd:
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

----------------------------------------

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\蝌蚪眼\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-idknd4\cairosvg\

Could someone help me? Thanks a lot!

[benoit-pierre]

That's because the package support Python 3.4+ only.

[pradyunsg]

Hi @pmyjudy!

As @benoit-pierre points out, https://cairosvg.org/ says that CairoSVG is a 3.4+ only library. This means you can't use it with Python 2.7.

I suggest you file an issue over at https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG about this; possibly requesting them to have some way to print a better error message when user uses a not-supported Python package (perhaps by using better metadata and conditionals in setup.py).

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I don't think there's anything actionable from pip's end on this issue and so I'll go ahead and close this. You can still comment on this issue even after it's closed. :)

[pmyjudy]

The book "Data Wrangling with Python" says it works for python 2.7. I don't know whether if it has been updated. Anyway, thanks a lot! @benoit-pierre @pradyunsg

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