Python Eel cant be installed

Question

I was trying to install eel using pip install eel but I get an error of

C:\Users\USER>pip install eel
Collecting eel
  Using cached Eel-0.7.0.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\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-aa7ptb\eel\setup.py", line 14, in <module>
        long_description=open('README.md', encoding='utf-8').readlines()[1],
    TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-aa7ptb\eel\

I tried using pip install --upgrade setuptools but still doesnt work.

using python 2.7

The package obviously requires Python 3. – tamasgal Jan 08 '18 at 12:24 — tamasgal, Jan 08 '18 at 12:24
This means that Eel only supports Python 3 – DeepSpace Jan 08 '18 at 12:24 — DeepSpace, Jan 08 '18 at 12:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '18 at 12:29

The open function in Python 2.7 has a different signature and especially no keyword argument called encoding, as you can read from the error message.

Eel seems to no support Python 2.7 (you should go with Python 3 anyways ;)

open in Python 2.7: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#open

open in Python 3.6: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#open

Python Eel cant be installed

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