ImportError: No module named pyPdf

[betesh]

I think pyPdf changed its name to pyPdf2. See http://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/

Downloading/unpacking pdfmerge
  Downloading pdfmerge-0.0.4.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_XXX/pdfmerge/setup.py) egg_info for package pdfmerge
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip_build_XXX/pdfmerge/setup.py", line 11, in <module>
        import pdfmerge
      File "pdfmerge.py", line 14, in <module>
        from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
    ImportError: No module named pyPdf
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/tmp/pip_build_XXX/pdfmerge/setup.py", line 11, in <module>

    import pdfmerge

  File "pdfmerge.py", line 14, in <module>

    from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader

ImportError: No module named pyPdf

So I tried installed pyPdf manually, which required a few dangerous flags:

$ pip install pyPdf --user --allow-external pyPdf --allow-unverified PyPdf

This got me a little further:

  File "/tmp/pip_build_XXX/pdfmerge/setup.py", line 36, in <module>
    'install_requires': get_deps('requirements.txt'),
  File "/tmp/pip_build_XXX/pdfmerge/setup.py", line 19, in get_deps
    for line in open(path):
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirements.txt'

And at this point, I'm totally lost.

[metaist]

Took me a bit, but I think this is finally resolved.

[betesh]

I can confirm this works--uninstalled pip and deleted ~/.pip and ~/.local/python*, then re-installed pip just to be absolutely sure I was working with a clean environment. After that, pip install pdfmerge --user worked on the first try.