This error popped up today while trying to install some packages using pip. Python version - 3.5.4
pip install pytesseract
It gives the following exception :
Collecting pytesseractException:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 335, in ru
n
wb.build(autobuilding=True)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\wheel.py", line 749, in build
self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 380, in prepare
_files
ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 554, in _prepar
e_file
require_hashes
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 278, in pop
ulate_link
self.link = finder.find_requirement(self, upgrade)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\index.py", line 465, in find_requirem
ent
all_candidates = self.find_all_candidates(req.name)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\index.py", line 423, in find_all_cand
idates
for page in self._get_pages(url_locations, project_name):
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\index.py", line 568, in _get_pages
page = self._get_page(location)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\index.py", line 683, in _get_page
return HTMLPage.get_page(link, session=self.session)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\index.py", line 811, in get_page
inst = cls(resp.content, resp.url, resp.headers)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\index.py", line 728, in __init__
self.parsed = html5lib.parse(
AttributeError: module 'pip._vendor.html5lib' has no attribute 'parse'
This exception comes up even for pip update commands. html5lib
version is 0.999. The following code seems to be working fine.
import html5lib
document = html5lib.parse("<p>Hello World!")
Any pointers as to why this error is coming up would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
I was using anaconda and recently updated conda and anaconda and I recieved this error.
'conda update pip' fixed it