"pip install scancode-toolkit" gives error

[AyanSinhaMahapatra]

Description

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Creating a Python 3 virtualenv and running pip install scancode-toolkit generates this error

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement extractcode-libarchive (from scancode-toolkit) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for extractcode-libarchive (from scancode-toolkit)

When I was testing a few days before, the Error was

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement extractcode-7z

The exact commands were

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 venv-test-py3
source venv-test-py3/bin/activate
pip install scancode-toolkit

The scancode-toolkit downloaded from PyPI is of version 3.1.1
[On Python 3.6.8 and pip 19.3.1]

The python 2 pip install obviously works fine, and installs Scancode-Toolkit 3.0.2

System configuration

For bug reports, it really helps us to know:

• What OS are you running on? Ubuntu 18.04
• What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file? v3.1.1
• What installation method was used to install/run scancode? pip

[pombredanne]

Thank you. Great catch!

[aj4ayushjain]

What's the actual issue here @pombredanne .
As in tried replicating it in my machine with almost same config only difference being ubuntu upgraded 16->18.Everthing was working fine.

[pombredanne]

@aj4ayushjain thank you for the feedback. All has been fixed now. The key thing was actual re-release of the latest binary plugins for extractcode/typecode

[filips123]

@pombredanne Repository's README says that PYthon 2 is required? Is this still true? If it is, you should really be fixing this as Python 2.7 EOL is in 2020.

[pombredanne]

@filips123 good catch!
@Abhishek-Dev09 completed the Python 3 port and we now fully support at least Python 3.6. For now we also still support Python 2.7 so we need to update the README for sure!.
Do you mind to support a pull request? that would be welcomed and very kind of you.