ImportError: cannot import name 'KiteConnect' about pykiteconnect

[rajeshdua123]

Hello Zerodha Team,

Please help.

Thanks

[vividvilla]

We have tested in Linux and it seems working. This could be windows related issue. Can you run pip freeze and paste the logs here? Also how are you importing it, I guess its from kiteconnect import KiteConnect?

[tushar2708]

This seems to be happening with the latest versions of pip.

From pip's message it seems that zerodha team will need to do a change in their setup.py :

Below is the error/warning message that comes on

pip install kiteconnect

    Running setup.py install for kiteconnect ... done
  DEPRECATION: kiteconnect from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b9/0b/ab3c02f062e7c36d2e530c7bab47f47978431ee35a4ef1d5a8597528f648/kiteconnect-3.8.1.tar.gz#sha256=bc667aff2a2ffca23d1fdaf1375b765d823834aea7561369f1b6831669230000 did not indicate that it installed an .egg-info directory. Only setup.py projects generating .egg-info directories are supported. pip 20.2 will remove support for this functionality. A possible replacement is for maintainers: updating the setup.py of kiteconnect. For users: contact the maintainers of kiteconnect to let them know to update their setup.py.. You can find discussion regarding this at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6998.

The above error that pip is giving has a link to an issue that is already logged in the context of kiteconnect. (pypa/pip#6998)

Corresponding kiteconnect forum page: https://kite.trade/forum/discussion/4335/could-not-find-egg-info-directory-in-install-record-for-kiteconnect

But not sure why the support thread has been closed, telling the user:
Successfully installed kiteconnect` means kiteconnect is installed. Could not find .egg directory is a warning that you ignore. Please do not create unnecessary threads unless it is a valid query.

This is not correct. The package installation is, in fact failing.

[joeirimpan]

@tushar2708 Package installation is showing a deprecation warning. I m checking into it now.

Installation

(testenv) ➜  test pip install kiteconnect                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Collecting kiteconnect                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  Using cached kiteconnect-3.8.1.tar.gz (24 kB)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.18.4 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from kiteconnect) (2.22.0)                                                                                                                                                                                
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.11.0 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from kiteconnect) (1.14.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyOpenSSL>=17.5.0 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from kiteconnect) (19.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: enum34>=1.1.6 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from kiteconnect) (1.1.6)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.6.1 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from kiteconnect) (2.8.1)
Requirement already satisfied: autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from kiteconnect) (20.1.3)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.9,>=2.5 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from requests>=2.18.4->kiteconnect) (2.8)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from requests>=2.18.4->kiteconnect) (2019.11.28)
Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from requests>=2.18.4->kiteconnect) (3.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from requests>=2.18.4->kiteconnect) (1.25.8)
Requirement already satisfied: cryptography>=2.8 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from pyOpenSSL>=17.5.0->kiteconnect) (2.8) 
Requirement already satisfied: txaio>=20.1.1 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (20.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: twisted>=15.4.0; extra == "twisted" in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (19.10.0)
Requirement already satisfied: zope.interface>=3.6.0; extra == "twisted" in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (4.7.1)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.8 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from cryptography>=2.8->pyOpenSSL>=17.5.0->kiteconnect) (1.13.2)
Requirement already satisfied: Automat>=0.3.0 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from twisted>=15.4.0; extra == "twisted"->autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (0.8.0)
Requirement already satisfied: PyHamcrest>=1.9.0 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from twisted>=15.4.0; extra == "twisted"->autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (2.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: attrs>=17.4.0 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from twisted>=15.4.0; extra == "twisted"->autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (19.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: hyperlink>=17.1.1 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from twisted>=15.4.0; extra == "twisted"->autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (19.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: incremental>=16.10.1 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from twisted>=15.4.0; extra == "twisted"->autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (17.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: constantly>=15.1 in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from twisted>=15.4.0; extra == "twisted"->autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (15.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from zope.interface>=3.6.0; extra == "twisted"->autobahn[twisted]>=17.10.1->kiteconnect) (45.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.8->cryptography>=2.8->pyOpenSSL>=17.5.0->kiteconnect) (2.19)
Building wheels for collected packages: kiteconnect
  Building wheel for kiteconnect (setup.py) ... done
  WARNING: Legacy build of wheel for 'kiteconnect' created no files.
  Command arguments: /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-6x5yz0mj/kiteconnect/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-6x5yz0mj/kiteconnect/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().repla
ce('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-nikobdjf
  Command output: [use --verbose to show]
  Running setup.py clean for kiteconnect
Failed to build kiteconnect
Installing collected packages: kiteconnect
    Running setup.py install for kiteconnect ... done
  DEPRECATION: kiteconnect from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b9/0b/ab3c02f062e7c36d2e530c7bab47f47978431ee35a4ef1d5a8597528f648/kiteconnect-3.8.1.tar.gz#sha256=bc667aff2a2ffca23d1fdaf1375b765d823834aea7561369f1b6831669230000 did not indicate that it installed an .egg-info directory. Only setup.py projects 
generating .egg-info directories are supported. pip 20.2 will remove support for this functionality. A possible replacement is for maintainers: updating the setup.py of kiteconnect. For users: contact the maintainers of kiteconnect to let them know to update their setup.py.. You can find discussion regarding this at 
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6998.
Successfully installed kiteconnect

Version

(testenv) ➜  test pip show kiteconnect
Name: kiteconnect
Version: 3.8.1
Summary: The official Python client for the Kite Connect trading API
Home-page: https://kite.trade
Author: Zerodha Technology Pvt ltd. (India)
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kiteconnect-3.8.1-py3.8.egg
Requires: requests, six, pyOpenSSL, enum34, python-dateutil, autobahn
Required-by: 

Egg directory

(testenv) ➜  test unzip -l /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kiteconnect-3.8.1-py3.8.egg
Archive:  /home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kiteconnect-3.8.1-py3.8.egg
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
     8201  2020-02-07 15:20   EGG-INFO/PKG-INFO
      324  2020-02-07 15:20   EGG-INFO/SOURCES.txt
        1  2020-02-07 15:20   EGG-INFO/dependency_links.txt
      157  2020-02-07 15:20   EGG-INFO/requires.txt
       12  2020-02-07 15:20   EGG-INFO/top_level.txt
        1  2020-02-07 15:20   EGG-INFO/zip-safe
     3842  2020-01-06 13:13   kiteconnect/__init__.py
      335  2020-01-06 13:13   kiteconnect/__version__.py
    33363  2020-01-06 13:13   kiteconnect/connect.py
     2574  2020-01-06 13:13   kiteconnect/exceptions.py
    31968  2020-01-06 13:13   kiteconnect/ticker.py
     4006  2020-02-07 15:20   kiteconnect/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-38.pyc
      508  2020-02-07 15:20   kiteconnect/__pycache__/__version__.cpython-38.pyc
    26314  2020-02-07 15:20   kiteconnect/__pycache__/connect.cpython-38.pyc
     3687  2020-02-07 15:20   kiteconnect/__pycache__/exceptions.cpython-38.pyc
    25049  2020-02-07 15:20   kiteconnect/__pycache__/ticker.cpython-38.pyc
---------                     -------
   140342                     16 file

Sys path has correct path to egg to imports to work fine

(testenv) ➜  test ipython
/home/testuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:925: UserWarning: Attempting to work in a virtualenv. If you encounter problems, please install IPython inside the virtualenv.
  warn("Attempting to work in a virtualenv. If you encounter problems, please "
Python 3.8.1 (default, Jan 22 2020, 06:38:00) 
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.11.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: import sys                                                             

In [2]: sys.path                                                               
Out[2]: 
['/home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages',
 '/home/testuser/.local/bin',
 '/usr/lib/python38.zip',
 '/usr/lib/python3.8',
 '/usr/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload',
 '',
 '/home/testuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages',
 '/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages',
 '/home/testuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/IPython/extensions',
 '/home/testuser/.ipython',
 '/home/testuser/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kiteconnect-3.8.1-py3.8.egg']

We will fix the warning before pip moves to minor version.

[joeirimpan]

Fixed in https://pypi.org/project/kiteconnect/ v3.8.2