Installing Tweepy with pip

Question

I am trying to install tweepy with the pip command

pip install tweepy

however it is coming up with the error

DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (six) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
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OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/zt/c358wgd9255dc9xc2c4s7p9c0000gn/T/pip-odKEwd-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

I am on a mac running OSX 10.12

Thanks for any help

I think the error can be resolved by executing `pip install scrape --upgrade --ignore-installed six` see: [On OS X El Capitan I can not upgrade a python package dependent on the six compatibility utilities NOR can I remove six](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33185147/on-os-x-el-capitan-i-can-not-upgrade-a-python-package-dependent-on-the-six-compa) — chickity china chinese chicken, Mar 21 '17 at 22:20
what about `pip install tweepy --ignore-installed six`? Still `OSError`? — chickity china chinese chicken, Mar 21 '17 at 22:28
By the way, based on your Error, I'm just relaying suggestions from https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3165 — chickity china chinese chicken, Mar 21 '17 at 22:29
No it worked. Thank you, but one final thing. Can you briefly explain the difference? And maybe what caused the OSError — Einstein.py, Mar 21 '17 at 22:30
it seems the reason for the error is a conflict between the pre-installed `six` package that is shipped with OSX 10.12, and the `tweepy` package attempts to uninstall that OSX pre-installed `six` version, but the OS reports to python that it's not permitted to uninstall it. Hope it helps, glad you got it fixed, cheers :) — chickity china chinese chicken, Mar 21 '17 at 22:34

Taku · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-21T22:34:51.273

Since you tagged python-3.x my guess is that you also have python 3 installed and want to use that instead. The pip command by default, is used to install package for python-2.7 which is included with mac, but you do not have permission to modify library six for the built in python 2. So you should type this instead for python 3 pip:

pip3 install tweepy

if you are actually trying to install tweepy to python 2, then you should include the option --ignore-installed six which is required when installing packages that needs six since the included six module doesn't work fluently. So you should type the command which ignores the included six and install a new one overriding it:

pip install tweepy --ignore-installed six

Didn't work until I added sudo. sudo pip3 install tweepy – DoesData Oct 29 '17 at 21:02 — DoesData, Oct 29 '17 at 21:02

Installing Tweepy with pip

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