PIP Install request RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in python 2.7

Question

I am new to python and facing below issue.

When I am trying to install request module by using command PIP install request, I got the error

RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in  
C:\users\sandeep_kumar39\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-gzzphx\setupfiles\

Python version is 2.7.12 and I already upgrade the distribution package by using command pip install --upgrade distribute

and upgraded the pip version too by using command pip install --upgrade pip

Complete output of error:

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip install request
Collecting request
  Using cached request-0.0.12.tar.gz
Collecting get (from request)
  Using cached get-0.0.20.tar.gz
Collecting post (from request)
  Using cached post-0.0.12.tar.gz
Collecting setupfiles (from request)
  Using cached setupfiles-0.0.16.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "c:\users\sandeep_kumar39\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-3gsgdg\setupfiles\setup.py", line 4, in <module>
        from setupfiles import setup
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
            File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 18, in <module>
        import setupfiles # nopep8
      File "setupfiles.py", line 11, in <module>
        dirname = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
      File "c:\python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 215, in dirname
        return split(p)[0]
      File "c:\python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 180, in split
        d, p = splitdrive(p)
    RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\sandeep_kumar39\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-3gsgdg\setupfiles\

give the full output of the error and the line that you execute, it will help — WNG, Jun 01 '17 at 19:45
Do you actually mean to install [request](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/request) and not [request**s**](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests)? — jwodder, Jun 01 '17 at 20:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '17 at 21:01

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This appears to be due to a bug in recent versions of setupfiles, upon which request depends. You can work around this by first installing version 0.0.14 of setupfiles with pip install setupfiles==0.0.14 before trying to install request.

answered Jun 01 '17 at 21:01

jwodder

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Thanks..its installed now :) – sandeep goyal Jun 01 '17 at 21:11

PIP Install request RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in python 2.7

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