Installation via pip fails needing pathlib2

[jdittrich]

Expected: easy installation via pip3 install gooey :)

Problem: pip3 install gooey fails.

Description: It prints

File "build.py", line 30, in <module> import pathlib2…
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pathlib2',

I wonder, since pathlib2 is a python2 module, whereas I installed this for python 3 (which, under ubuntu, is aliased to python3 and pip3). Maybe it’s this wxPythons fault…

System:

• Ubuntu 18.04 amd65,
• Python 3.6.8
• No virtualenv used (but I could)

Me: basic python knowledge, in case I should look anything up.

related: #243 ("Add install workaround for (ubuntu, conda) installation ")

[emmggi]

Same issue here, Arch linux.

[zertrin]

Same here yesterday.

It seems pathlib2 is a dependency of wxpython. Even after pip install pathlib2, I had issues with building wxpython from pip (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) with missing dependencies.

In the end I resolved it by installing wxpython with conda in my conda environment before installing Gooey:

conda activate myenvironment
conda install wxpython
pip install Gooey

You can also install Gooey with conda, but currently you get the 1.0.2 version. 1.0.3 has many improvements over 1.0.2 which I required.

[emmggi]

I fixed it by installing with my distro's package manager:
sudo pacman -S python-wxpython

[jessebrennan]

Related wxPython issue wxWidgets/Phoenix#1251

[syhe]

This is fixed in wxpython 4.0.7 and onwards.