pydoop installation on python 3.4.3

Question

I am trying to install pydoop via following command

pip3.4 install pydoop

The installation is interrupted with following error

Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-jwy57_9u/pydoop/setup.py", line 41
        print 'using setuptools version', setuptools.__version__
                                       ^
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

I think the error has to do with mismatch in python version as there should be parantheses in call to 'print' in python3.

I am able to install other packages using pip3.4 install

Answer 1

As sgp mentioned, pydoop is only supported by Python 2. I suggest to preview the slides here and particularly

where comparison to Python and Java for Hadoop. Because Hadoop is natively written in Java, the Python community on hadoop is far smaller.

where the native implementation in Java outperforms the other ones.

Other options contain

1. use Java with Hadoop

2. or other libraries such as Hadoopy, mrjob and dumbo: Hadoopy not mentioning Python version explicitly on its 2-4 years old-dated repos in github, mrjob supports Python 3 as well by this and dumbo's websites are down from github here.

3. octopy

Answer 2

The docs clearly state that Pydoop requires Python 2.7 (or 2.6) as a pre-requisite. As far as I know, there is no current support for Python 3 provided by Pydoop. In short, you need to switch to Python 2.7 (or 2.6).