Push rejected, failed to compile Python app

Question

I\'m getting a rejected error when trying to deploy a Django app to Heroku. I looked at possible solutions here:

1. Heroku push rejected, failed to compile Py

Answer 1

This is a problem with the deprecated distribute package. See Bug #91 on Bitbucket.

Replacing distribute==0.6.24 with setuptools==0.7.3 in your requirements.txt file should remedy your problem.