Cannot pip install scikits.talkbox on MacOS

Question

I'm trying to pip install scikits.talkbox on my MacOS. I use Python 3.7.3

If I run

pip install scikits.talkbox

or

pip3 install scikits.talkbox

I get the following errors (I hope I did include everything)

scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3287:21: error: no member named 'exc_type' in 'struct _ts'
    *type = tstate->exc_type;
            ~~~~~~  ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3288:22: error: no member named 'exc_value' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
    *value = tstate->exc_value;
                     ^~~~~~~~~
                     curexc_value
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:240:15: note: 'curexc_value' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_value;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3289:19: error: no member named 'exc_traceback' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
    *tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                  curexc_traceback
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:241:15: note: 'curexc_traceback' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_traceback;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3298:24: error: no member named 'exc_type' in 'struct _ts'
    tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
               ~~~~~~  ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3299:25: error: no member named 'exc_value' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
    tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                        ^~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_value
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:240:15: note: 'curexc_value' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_value;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3300:22: error: no member named 'exc_traceback' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
    tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                     curexc_traceback
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:241:15: note: 'curexc_traceback' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_traceback;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3301:13: error: no member named 'exc_type' in 'struct _ts'
    tstate->exc_type = type;
    ~~~~~~  ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3302:13: error: no member named 'exc_value' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
    tstate->exc_value = value;
            ^~~~~~~~~
            curexc_value
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:240:15: note: 'curexc_value' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_value;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3303:13: error: no member named 'exc_traceback' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
    tstate->exc_traceback = tb;
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
            curexc_traceback
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:241:15: note: 'curexc_traceback' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_traceback;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3319:24: error: no member named 'exc_type' in 'struct _ts'
    tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
               ~~~~~~  ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3320:25: error: no member named 'exc_value' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
    tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                        ^~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_value
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:240:15: note: 'curexc_value' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_value;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3321:22: error: no member named 'exc_traceback' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
    tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                     curexc_traceback
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:241:15: note: 'curexc_traceback' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_traceback;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3322:13: error: no member named 'exc_type' in 'struct _ts'
    tstate->exc_type = *type;
    ~~~~~~  ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3323:13: error: no member named 'exc_value' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
    tstate->exc_value = *value;
            ^~~~~~~~~
            curexc_value
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:240:15: note: 'curexc_value' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_value;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3324:13: error: no member named 'exc_traceback' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
    tstate->exc_traceback = *tb;
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
            curexc_traceback
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m/pystate.h:241:15: note: 'curexc_traceback' declared here
    PyObject *curexc_traceback;
              ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3537:25: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyNumber_Int' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        PyObject* tmp = PyNumber_Int(x); if (!tmp) return (PY_LONG_LONG)-1;
                        ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3537:19: warning: incompatible integer to pointer conversion initializing 'PyObject *' (aka 'struct _object *') with an expression of type 'int' [-Wint-conversion]
        PyObject* tmp = PyNumber_Int(x); if (!tmp) return (PY_LONG_LONG)-1;
                  ^     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3558:25: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyNumber_Int' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        PyObject* tmp = PyNumber_Int(x); if (!tmp) return (PY_LONG_LONG)-1;
                        ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3558:19: warning: incompatible integer to pointer conversion initializing 'PyObject *' (aka 'struct _object *') with an expression of type 'int' [-Wint-conversion]
        PyObject* tmp = PyNumber_Int(x); if (!tmp) return (PY_LONG_LONG)-1;
                  ^     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My suspect is that there is some problems with setuptools, which I have just upgraded, no results. Any ideas?

That's the part of the output where it shows the command used to install. You need to post the _actual error_ part of the output, and the `pip` command you used. Also are you using Python 2 or 3? — Gino Mempin, Oct 04 '19 at 14:37
I have included the required information. If there is anything still missing, please let me know. — Phys, Oct 04 '19 at 15:19

Gino Mempin · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-05T03:47:04.630

I get the same errors on Python 3.7.4 on macOS. It's related to the package's Cython-related codes:

scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3287:21: error: no member named 'exc_type' in 'struct _ts'
    *type = tstate->exc_type;
            ~~~~~~  ^
scikits/talkbox/tools/src/cffilter.c:3288:22: error: no member named 'exc_value' in 'struct _ts'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
    *value = tstate->exc_value;
                     ^~~~~~~~~
                     curexc_value

First of, the scikits.talkbox package is very old with its last release waaaaay back in Aug 28, 2009 (see 0.25), which is about 10 years ago! It seems it is not compatible with or was not even ported yet for Python 3.

It does install successfully on Python 2.7, though:

$ python -V
Python 2.7.16
$ python -m pip install numpy scipy
...
$ python -m pip install scikits.talkbox
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Collecting scikits.talkbox
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/65/a0/410eb932e1765186a4728d1c9b28410695d554c47439bcb69a407d5d3921/scikits.talkbox-0.2.5.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /Users/cerberus/.virtualenvs/test-py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from scikits.talkbox) (1.16.5)
Building wheels for collected packages: scikits.talkbox
  Building wheel for scikits.talkbox (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for scikits.talkbox: filename=scikits.talkbox-0.2.5-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl size=68422 sha256=4585d129fe5ba2de97935f723f2d84a8b908480528c66cf00714f8a5f56c6bee
  Stored in directory: /Users/cerberus/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/40/06/3f/05c8ab2b4a0cfb32ad02c449e5c949c592cd0c6458db0e7f5f
Successfully built scikits.talkbox
Installing collected packages: scikits.talkbox
Successfully installed scikits.talkbox-0.2.5

If you want Python 3 support, you'll have to raise an issue over at the scikits.talkbox Github page, but judging from the history on that repo, it seems the author is not active anymore on that project.

Out of curiousity, I tried finding a workaround for installing on Python 3. Basically, the package includes pre-compiled Cython files, which are not compatible with Python 3 (giving the errors with *.c files). I tried to re-compile it with Cython on Python3.7:

# download the source code from PyPi
$ wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/65/a0/410eb932e1765186a4728d1c9b28410695d554c47439bcb69a407d5d3921/scikits.talkbox-0.2.5.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf scikits.talkbox-0.2.5.tar.gz
$ cd scikits.talkbox-0.2.5/

# re-compile with Cython on Python 3.7
$ python3 -V
Python 3.7.4
$ python3 -m pip install numpy scipy cython
$ find . -name '*.pyx' -exec cython {} \;
$ python3 -m pip install .
...
Successfully installed scikits.talkbox-0.2.5

It seems I got it successfully installed BUT when you use it:

$ python3
Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep  7 2019, 18:29:04) 
[Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import scikits.talkbox
['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/cerberus/.virtualenvs/test-py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scikits/talkbox/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    __all__ += tools.__all__
AttributeError: module 'tools' has no attribute '__all__'
>>>

..which is the same unresolved, unnoticed error reported in the package's repo:
https://github.com/cournape/talkbox/issues/8

So... it seems your only options are to:

Use Python 2.7
Use a different, more Python3-compatible library
- Ex. librosa as suggested in Something wrong with scikits.talkbox with Python3?

Many thanks for your effort. Yes, works with python 2.7, but I will not use it, it will be deprecated soon and I need a reliable code on the long term. I will have to find an alternative, I was trying to use the LPC module inside, which is not included in librosa. — Phys, Oct 07 '19 at 11:12

Cannot pip install scikits.talkbox on MacOS

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