Could not find .egg-info directory in install record for kiteconnect

hiwarekar

I am trying to install kiteconnect but came across this error after pip install kiteconnect --upgrade --pre

Building wheels for collected packages: kiteconnect
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for kiteconnect ... done
Running setup.py clean for kiteconnect
Failed to build kiteconnect
Installing collected packages: kiteconnect
Running setup.py install for kiteconnect ... done
Could not find .egg-info directory in install record for kiteconnect from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e9/74/5354c5845ae4108329b19d08089113fd5dde8ce63c9639907f622086aef6/kiteconnect-3.7.4.tar.gz#sha256=e9af253d575735343e585e2c3851a58889405fab16af5bfda981064c17dd5ee7

is this the reason why I am getting Token Invalid all the time

I have already referred : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26091641/what-does-a-could-not-find-egg-info-directory-in-install-record-from-pip-mean/36785114

but my setup tools is also upgraded.

zartimus

@hiwarekar
`pip show kiteconnect` should show 3.7.4. Otherwise you are running old version.

Now, if you running old one. Try this
`pip uninstall kiteconnect`
`pip install kiteconnect --no-cache-dir`

hiwarekar

@zartimus

(base) C:\Users\hp\Desktop>pip show kiteconnect
Name: kiteconnect
Version: 3.7.4
Summary: The official Python client for the Kite Connect trading API
Home-page: https://kite.trade
Author: Zerodha Technology Pvt ltd. (India)
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: c:\users\hp\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\kiteconnect-3.7.4-py3.6.egg
Requires: requests, six, pyOpenSSL, enum34, python-dateutil, autobahn, pypiwin32
Required-by:

this is the output for version
tried
`pip uninstall kiteconnect`
`pip install kiteconnect --no-cache-dir`
but same error after installation

zartimus

@hiwarekar

Installing collected packages: kiteconnect
Running setup.py install for kiteconnect ... done
Could not find .egg-info directory in install record for kiteconnect from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e9/74/5354c5845ae4108329b19d08089113fd5dde8ce63c9639907f622086aef6/kiteconnect-3.7.4.tar.gz#sha256=e9af253d575735343e585e2c3851a58889405fab16af5bfda981064c17dd5ee7
Successfully installed kiteconnect

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