[Bug-Candidate]:

[galactictourist]

Describe the issue:

Tried every way I can find to install slither -- currently using the second option on the dev install page however in any case if I try to use read storage I am told to install web3 - I have done that several times - uninstalled - reinstalled - completely ripped out all python and reinstalled tried everything again and no matter what I do I cannot get slither to recognize my web3 install. If I run pip list - it's there.

(slither-dev) iMac:slither sovryn73$ slither-read-storage bsc:0xa1faa113cbE53436Df28FF0aEe54275c13B40975 --json storage_layout.json --rpc-url https://bsc-mainnet-rpc.allthatnode.com
ERROR: in order to use slither-read-storage, you need to install web3
$ pip3 install web3 --user

Code example to reproduce the issue:

(slither-dev) iMac:slither sovryn73$ slither-read-storage bsc:0xa1faa113cbE53436Df28FF0aEe54275c13B40975 --json storage_layout.json --rpc-url https://bsc-mainnet-rpc.allthatnode.com
ERROR: in order to use slither-read-storage, you need to install web3
$ pip3 install web3 --user

Version:

0.9.2

Relevant log output:

No response

[0xalpharush]

I replied to your issue here #1747.
If it helps, here's the output for the command you gave:

{
    "_balances": {
        "name": "_balances",
        "type_string": "mapping(address => uint256)",
        "slot": 0,
        "size": 256,
        "offset": 0,
        "value": 0,
        "elems": {}
    },
    "_allowances": {
        "name": "_allowances",
        "type_string": "mapping(address => mapping(address => uint256))",
        "slot": 1,
        "size": 256,
        "offset": 0,
        "value": 0,
        "elems": {}
    },
    "_totalSupply": {
        "name": "_totalSupply",
        "type_string": "uint256",
        "slot": 2,
        "size": 256,
        "offset": 0,
        "value": 1000000000000000000000000000,
        "elems": {}
    },
    "_name": {
        "name": "_name",
        "type_string": "string",
        "slot": 3,
        "size": 256,
        "offset": 0,
        "value": "AlphaToken",
        "elems": {}
    },
    "_symbol": {
        "name": "_symbol",
        "type_string": "string",
        "slot": 4,
        "size": 256,
        "offset": 0,
        "value": "ALPHA",
        "elems": {}
    },
    "_decimals": {
        "name": "_decimals",
        "type_string": "uint8",
        "slot": 5,
        "size": 8,
        "offset": 0,
        "value": 18,
        "elems": {}
    },
    "_owner": {
        "name": "_owner",
        "type_string": "address",
        "slot": 5,
        "size": 160,
        "offset": 8,
        "value": "0x4F992a6d8532eB9AF589E47F5b6Fea30E7e203B4",
        "elems": {}
    }
}

[maxcoto]

I have this same problem with python 3.9 and 3.10 too.
slither version 0.9.2

slither-read-storage 0x8ad599c3a0ff1de082011efddc58f1908eb6e6d8
ERROR: in order to use slither-read-storage, you need to install web3
$ pip3 install web3 --user

web3 installation passes

Requirement already satisfied: web3 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.10.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages (6.0.0)

Still prompting that web3 is missing.

Update
@0xalpharush I can confirm this patch solves the issue
#1743
It stops saying that the issue is web3 not installed and prints the correct error which was a missing solc version installation.

[0xalpharush]

closed by #1743