Install tweepy module with pip

Question

I'm relatively new to coding but feel like I have a firm understanding of the basics. I am looking to use python to experiment with twitter using the tweepy module but I'm having trouble install it, and other modules too, using pip in the command line.

Typing pip pip install tweepy into the command line (Terminal on macOS Sierra) returns the string of errors at the end of this post.

If anyone could shed any light onto why I can't install any modules I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Collecting tweepy
  Using cached tweepy-3.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting six>=1.7.3 (from tweepy)
  Using cached six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requests-oauthlib>=0.4.1 (from tweepy)
  Using cached requests_oauthlib-0.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requests>=2.4.3 (from tweepy)
  Using cached requests-2.11.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting oauthlib>=0.6.2 (from requests-oauthlib>=0.4.1->tweepy)
  Using cached oauthlib-2.0.0.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: six, oauthlib, requests, requests-oauthlib, tweepy
  Found existing installation: six 1.4.1
    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.
    Uninstalling six-1.4.1:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 778, in install
    requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 754, in uninstall
    paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 115, in remove
    renames(path, new_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 267, in renames
    shutil.move(old, new)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 302, in move
    copy2(src, real_dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 131, in copy2
    copystat(src, dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 103, in copystat
    os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/folders/3m/f0y775rj4nj_xc8t0vntyjk80000gn/T/pip-thDOd4-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

Answer 1

As mentioned above, you need root access where pip stores the packages.

Python 3.x:

sudo pip3 install tweepy

Python 2.x:

sudo pip install tweepy

You may also use Git to clone the repository from Github and install it manually:

git clone https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git
cd tweepy
python setup.py install

Alternatively you can use virtualenv

"What if you can't install packages into the global site-packages directory? For instance, on a shared host.

In all these cases, virtualenv can help you. It creates an environment that has its own installation directories, that doesn't share libraries with other virtualenv environments (and optionally doesn't access the globally installed libraries either)."

Basically it's allow you to create an isolated environment for each of your project and it's help on permission issue you have.

For more information: Installing Python on Mac OS X: virtualenv

Answer 2

You have problems with permissions. As suggested above, you can try to use sudo

Answer 3

Operation not permitted

You need to run:

sudo pip install tweepy