Error in setup.py while setting up requests package

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Error:  File "setup.py", line 1849
    exec(f.read(), globals(), fficonfig)
    SyntaxError: unqualified exec is not allowed in function 'configure_ctypes' it contains a nested function with free variables

I had been stupid in not changing the path and now getting aS under Error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests': Permission denied

The requests package has no such line in the setup.py, nor does it depend on anything that has such a setup.py. Please show us the full log and commands that lead to the above error. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 11:09
The error indicates you are trying to build Python itself, not requests. The line appears to correlate to Python 3.3.4. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 11:11
Followed steps on this website: docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/install/#install — user256378
– user256378, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 11:19
At a guess, something is reusing the Python setup.py file (which has a custom distutils built_ext command), and that command is being fed an incompatible fficonfig.py file somewhere. The requests module has no such file. It has no extension build steps at all. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 11:19
Can you please include the full session. It looks as if something is trying to install python into a virtual env. This is not requests that does this. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 11:23

Konstantin Gorgulev · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-12 06:07:42Z

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Try folloving:

# tar xzf Python-3.5.0.tgz    
# cd Python-3.5.0
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
# make altinstall

answered Oct 12, 2016 at 6:07

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IQworld Master · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-27 11:58:05Z

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It seems you are not getting the permission .

Please use "sudo" command for whatever you type

answered Aug 27, 2014 at 11:58

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