ImportError: No module named py31compat

Question

i am trying to install gensim using

sudo -H pip install --upgrade gensim

but it is giving me this error :

  File \"setup.py\",         


        

Answer 1

In my case i have odoo v10 installed and for any weird reason update or installed a library that stuck my server and not longer to start with XOE.

The error was:

cannot import name py31compat

After 1 hour trying many differents things i decide uninstall:

sudo pip uninstall setuptools

Uninstalling setuptools-40.8.0:   Would remove:
/usr/local/bin/easy_install
/usr/local/bin/easy_install-2.7
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/easy_install.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/*
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-40.8.0.dist-info/**

And my service odoo server starts and works fine again!