No module named 'Cython' with pip installation of tar.gz

Question

I use Poetry to build tar.gz and whl files for my example package (https://github.com/iamishalkin/cyrtd) and then try to install package inside pipenv environment. tar.gz installation fails and this is a piece of logs:

$ poetry build
...
$ pip install dist/cyrtd-0.1.0.tar.gz
Processing c:\work2\cyrtd\dist\cyrtd-0.1.0.tar.gz
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Requirement already satisfied: cython<0.30.0,>=0.29.13 in c:\users\ivan.mishalkin\.virtualenvs\cyrtd-tpdvsw8x\lib\site-packages (from cyrtd==0.1.0) (0.29.15)
Building wheels for collected packages: cyrtd
  Building wheel for cyrtd (PEP 517) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
...
from Cython.Build import cythonize
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Cython'  
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for dxpyfeed
Failed to build dxpyfeed
ERROR: Could not build wheels for dxpyfeed which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

Cython is installed and is callable from virtual interpreter. Even in logs it is written, that requirements for cython are satisfied. What is strange - everything worked fine couple months ago. I also tried conda venv, upgraded cython and poetry, nothing helped. Also tried weakly related workaround from setup_requires with Cython? - still no luck

UPD: I found some dirty workaround here: https://luminousmen.com/post/resolve-cython-and-numpy-dependencies

The idea is to add

from setuptools import dist
dist.Distribution().fetch_build_eggs(['cython'])

before Cython.Build import

After this I get these logs:

$ pip install dist/cyrtd-0.1.0.tar.gz
Processing c:\work2\cyrtd\dist\cyrtd-0.1.0.tar.gz
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Requirement already satisfied: cython<0.30.0,>=0.29.13 in c:\users\ivan.mishalkin\.virtualenvs\cyrtd-tpdvsw8x\lib\site-packages (from cyrtd==0.1.0) (0.29.15)
Building wheels for collected packages: cyrtd
  Building wheel for cyrtd (PEP 517) ... done
  Created wheel for cyrtd: filename=cyrtd-0.1.0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl size=33062 sha256=370a90657759d3183f3c11ebbdf1d23c3ca857d41dd45a86386ba33a6baf9a07
  Stored in directory: c:\users\ivan.mishalkin\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\45\d1\6b\52daecf1cc5234ca4d9e9e49b2f195e7adb83941424116432e
Successfully built cyrtd
Installing collected packages: cyrtd
  Attempting uninstall: cyrtd
    Found existing installation: cyrtd 0.1.0
    Uninstalling cyrtd-0.1.0:
      Successfully uninstalled cyrtd-0.1.0
Successfully installed cyrtd-0.1.0

Still looking for a better solution

UPD2: main files content: build.py:

from setuptools import Extension
from Cython.Build import cythonize

cyfuncs_ext = Extension(name='cyrtd.cymod.cyfuncs',
                        sources=['cyrtd/cymod/cyfuncs.pyx']
                        )

EXTENSIONS = [
    cyfuncs_ext
]

def build(setup_kwargs):
    setup_kwargs.update({
        'ext_modules': cythonize(EXTENSIONS, language_level=3),
        'zip_safe': False,
        'setup_requires':['setuptools>=18.0', 'cython']
    })

is the `build.py` script set as the value in `[tool.poetry].build`, or how do you bind it? — Arne, Feb 17 '20 at 07:36
@Arne yes, of course it is binded in `pyproject.toml` file. The repo from question contains all the code — Ivan Mishalkin, Feb 17 '20 at 10:15
ah, I didn't see that you linked your repo. is this a proper solution for you, or are you still looking for something better? If it's good enough, consider posting it as a self-contained answer. — Arne, Feb 17 '20 at 11:16
@Arne some time ago everything worked fine without such workaround, so I am confident that there is better solution. The problem is that I do not know, what have changed and where to search for bug — Ivan Mishalkin, Feb 17 '20 at 12:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '20 at 11:33

2

Adding cython in build-system section in pyproject.toml helped me

pyproject.toml:

...
[build-system]
requires = ["poetry>=0.12", "cython"]
...

answered Feb 27 '20 at 11:33

Ivan Mishalkin

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To my surprise this fixed it for me too – tharen Apr 22 '21 at 23:53

No module named 'Cython' with pip installation of tar.gz

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