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I am on Mac and installed csvkit. When I run csvlook, I get a traceback with the following error message:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library /Pythong/2.7/site-packages/python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/requires.txt'
Based on the documentation, I also ran the following:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install --upgrade csvkit
Still, no luck. How can I get this to work?
Since @taliezin did not post his answer, I'll do it. This fixed the issue for me, in Xubuntu.
You need to make the file /Python/2.7/site-packages/python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/requires.txt readable not only by root, but also by other users.
So, in a terminal, type each command followed by Enter:
sudo -s
cd /Python/2.7/site-packages/python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/
chmod 664 *
exit
FWIW, the reason why @colin-maudry's solution works is because this is a known bug specific to python_dateutil, as explained in this related SO discussion:
This is a known issue with python-dateutil where the permissions aren't set correctly in the pypi package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dateutil/+bug/1243202. This isn't a problem with pip because pip normalizes permissions, but if you install it differently you might run into problems.
The solution given:
sudo chmod o+r /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt
-rw-------you have to change to-rw-r--r--. May be this is your case.-rw-------. I'm not sure where to obtain info on making this change. Would you mind offering a link or a short description? Thanks!