Python PIP Install throws TypeError: unsupported o

Question

Using pip install for any module apparently on my Ubuntu 16.04 system with python 2.7.11+ throws this error:

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'Retry' and 'int'

What is wrong with pip? How could I reinstall it, if necessary?

Update: Full traceback is below

sunny@sunny:~$ pip install requests
Collecting requests
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 209, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 328, in run
    wb.build(autobuilding=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 748, in build
    self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 360, in prepare_files
    ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 512, in _prepare_file
    finder, self.upgrade, require_hashes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 273, in populate_link
    self.link = finder.find_requirement(self, upgrade)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 442, in find_requirement
    all_candidates = self.find_all_candidates(req.name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 400, in find_all_candidates
    for page in self._get_pages(url_locations, project_name):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 545, in _get_pages
    page = self._get_page(location)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 648, in _get_page
    return HTMLPage.get_page(link, session=self.session)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 757, in get_page
    "Cache-Control": "max-age=600",
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/sessions.py", line 480, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 378, in request
    return super(PipSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/sessions.py", line 468, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/sessions.py", line 576, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/CacheControl-0.11.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/cachecontrol/adapter.py", line 46, in send
    resp = super(CacheControlAdapter, self).send(request, **kw)
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/requests-2.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/adapters.py", line 376, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.13.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 610, in urlopen
    _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.13.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 228, in increment
    total -= 1
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'Retry' and 'int'

Answer 1

First of all, this problem exists because of network issues, and uninstalling and re-installing everything won't be of much help. Probably you are behind proxy, and in that case you need to set proxy.

But in my case, I was facing the problem because I wasn't behind proxy. Generally, I work behind proxy, but when working from home, I set the proxy to None in Network settings.

But I was still getting the same errors even after removing the proxy settings.

So, when I did type

env | grep proxy

I found something like this :

http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:1234/

And this was the reason I was still getting the very same error, even when I thought I had removed the proxy settings.

To unset this proxy, type

unset http_proxy

Follow the same approach for all the other entries, such as https_proxy.

Answer 2

For myself, it turns out that wlan0 was down, which resulted in me being unable to connect out. So, ensuring that wlan0 was up, allowed pip / pip3 to work without issue.

Answer 3

I have the same problem when installing a RaspberryPI TFT from Adafruit with pitft.sh / adafruit-pitft.sh.

I am not happy about coding-styles with errors from somewhere to be interpreted somehow - as could be seen by the previous answers.

Remark: The type error exception of retry.py is obviously a bug, caused by an unappropriate assignement and calculation of an instance of the class Reply to an int with the default value of 10 - somewhere in the code... Should be fixed either by adding an inplace-operator, or fixing the erroneous assignment.

So tried to analyse and patch the error itself first. The actual error in my case case is the same - retry.py called by pip.

The installation script adafruit-pitft.sh / pitft.sh tries to apply urllib3 which itself tries to install nested dependencies by pip, so the same error.

• https://github.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts/blob/master/adafruit-pitft.sh

• https://github.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts

adafruit-pitft.sh # or pitft.sh

...

_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2]) File "/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.13.1-py2.py3 none-any.whl/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 228, in increment

total -= 1

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'Retry' and 'int'

For the current distribution(based on debian-9.6.0/stretch):

File "/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 315, in increment

total -= 1

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'Retry' and 'int'

The following - dirty *:) - patch enables a sounding error trace:

# File: retry.py - in *def increment(self, ..* about line 315
# original: total = self.total

# patch: quick-and-dirty-fix
# START:
if isinstance(self.total, Retry):
    self.total = self.total.total

if type(self.total) is not int:
    self.total = 2 # default is 10
# END:

# continue with original:
total = self.total

if total is not None:
    total -= 1

connect = self.connect
read = self.read
redirect = self.redirect
cause = 'unknown'
status = None
redirect_location = None

if error and self._is_connection_error(error):
    # Connect retry?
    if connect is False:
        raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
    elif connect is not None:
        connect -= 1

The sounding output with the temporary patch is(displayed twice...?):

Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at/

Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at/

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement evdev (from versions: )

No matching distribution found for evdev

WARNING : Pip failed to install software!

So in my case actually two things cause the error, this may vary in other environments:

1. Missing evdev => try to install
2. Failed to connect a repo/dist containing evdev in order to download. => finally give it up

My installation environment is offline from an internal debian+raspbian mirror, thus do not want to set the proxy...

So I proceeded by manual installation of the missing component evdev:

1. download evdev from PyPI(or e.g. from github.com):

   https://pypi.org/project/evdev/

   https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7e/53/374b82dd2ccec240b7388c65075391147524255466651a14340615aabb5f/evdev-1.1.2.tar.gz

2. Unpack and install manually as root user - for all local accounts, so detected as installed:

   sudo su -

   tar xf evdev-1.1.2.tar.gz

   cd evdev-1.1.2

   python setup.py install

3. Call install script again:

   adafruit-pitft.sh # or pitft.sh

   ...Answer dialogues...

   ...that's it.

If you proceed online by direct PyPI access:

1. check your routing + firewall for access to pypi.org

2. set a proxy if required (http_proxy/https_proxy)

And it works..

Hope this helps in other cases too.

Arno-Can Uestuensoez

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See also: issue - 35334: https://bugs.python.org/issue35334

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See now also: issue - 1486: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1486

for file: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/master/src/urllib3/util/retry.py

Answer 4

I tried the solution answered above:

apt-get remove python-pip python3-pip
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py

When I tried

python get-pip.py 
python3 get-pip.py

I got this message

 Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: /usr/bin/pip3 Consider using the --user
 option or check the permissions.

I did the following and it works

python3 -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate
Sudo apt-get update 
apt-get remove python-pip python3-pip
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
pip3 install pip
sudo easy_install pip
pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 5

I also had this issue. Initially, a proxy was set and work fine. Then I connected to a network where it doesn't go through a proxy. After unsetting proxy pip again get works.

unset http_proxy; unset http_prox;  unset HTTP_PROXY; unset HTTPS_PROXY

Answer 6

Solution:
1. sudo apt remove python-pip
2. pip3 install pip (or install pip by get-pip.py)

Why:
This error occurred on pip 8.0.1 which installed by apt-get. And happened only when your network is unstable.

If you have a pip installed with apt, it hides the pip you installed by other ways, so you should remove the apt one first.

I disconnected the network and tested 8.0.1, 9.0.3, 10.x the 3 versions installed with pip3 or get-pip.py, no error occurred.   So, I think only the apt version of pip 8.0.1 has that bug, the others is ok.