bug pip pipenv install arcgis

[degarzonm]

Hello i just found a bug at the moment of installing arcgis with pip or pipenv, no matter if i try with or without dependencies the error is the same

error in arcgis setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version
requirement specifiers; [32m[1mExpected[0m end or semicolon (after version specifier)
keyring >=19,<=21.8.*

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
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This is likely caused by a bug in [32marcgis[0m. Report this to its maintainers.

[LinasSpraunius]

I've got the same error. Any ideas on how to solve it?

[GISAdministrator_LMCC]

+ 1: Would love to know of a fix also

[GilMastrapa]

Any luck??? Incredible that we can't deploy our function because of this error on the cloud(it was working properly previously!). Cloud function uses pip, not conda.   

Collecting arcgis==2.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 4))
Using cached arcgis-2.0.1.tar.gz (13.9 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [3 lines of output]
error in arcgis setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers; Expected end or semicolon (after version specifier)
keyring >=23.3.*
~~~~~~^
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[GilMastrapa]

Update.

Downgrading arcgis to 1.9.1 solved the issues (using python 3.8), but at the cost of having to use a dated version of the API. 

Several inconsistencies with the 2.* version dependencies. 

Did you find any other solution? @degarzonm  @GISAdministrator_LMCC  @LinasSpraunius 

[btripp]

I am also running into the same problem. I tried multiple versions of arcgis, as well as different versions of python - but had no luck until I used python==3.8.10, and arcgis==1.8.5.post3. Not a solution, but an intermediate fix until the arcgis folks fix the issue.

For any windows users, here is a .bat script you can run to set up a python venv with arcgis==1.8.5.post3 (assuming you have python==3.8.x installed and are on a windows machine):

@echo off
setlocal

REM Set the paths
set PYTHON_DIR=C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38
set VENV_NAME=py38

REM Create a new virtual environment
%PYTHON_DIR%\python.exe -m venv %VENV_NAME%

REM Activate the virtual environment
call %VENV_NAME%\Scripts\activate.bat

REM Install the packages
pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
pip install "keyring>=19,<=21.8.*"
pip install --use-pep517 arcgis==1.8.5.post3

endlocal

[GilMastrapa · Accepted solution]

Yes, locally is allowing to install up to 1.9.1, but for cloud functions to work it has to be 1.8.* . Here is a topic with more info on one of the broken dependencies (urllib)

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/error-init-got-an-unexpected-keyword-a...