Tethne Install Error setup.py egg_info

[adil1993]

I am getting error while installing tethne through pip

Collecting distribute (from slate->tethne)
Using cached distribute-0.7.3.zip
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/private/var/folders/7_/0psy1jvd4jjd3ckc7btqc4cr0000gn/T/pip-build-d5l2l4t1/distribute/setuptools/init.py", line 2, in
from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
File "/private/var/folders/7_/0psy1jvd4jjd3ckc7btqc4cr0000gn/T/pip-build-d5l2l4t1/distribute/setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in
from setuptools.dist import get_unpatched
File "/private/var/folders/7/0psy1jvd4jjd3ckc7btqc4cr0000gn/T/pip-build-d5l2l4t1/distribute/setuptools/dist.py", line 7, in
from setuptools.command.install import install
File "/private/var/folders/7_/0psy1jvd4jjd3ckc7btqc4cr0000gn/T/pip-build-d5l2l4t1/distribute/setuptools/command/init.py", line 8, in
from setuptools.command import install_scripts
File "/private/var/folders/7_/0psy1jvd4jjd3ckc7btqc4cr0000gn/T/pip-build-d5l2l4t1/distribute/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py", line 3, in
from pkg_resources import Distribution, PathMetadata, ensure_directory
File "/private/var/folders/7_/0psy1jvd4jjd3ckc7btqc4cr0000gn/T/pip-build-d5l2l4t1/distribute/pkg_resources.py", line 1518, in
register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'

[sshojiro]

@adil1993 I have encountered the same error and am still working on fixing it.
I thought pip install python-dotenv was helpful, as a similar discussion mentions: theskumar/python-dotenv#113 (comment).
However, I couldn't fix this. The cause seems in pip install distribute. When you may find a way to solve, I would appreciate it to share it with me. Thank you in advance.

[jdamerow]

@adil1993 and @sshojiro, are you using Python 3 by any chance? It's not fully supported I believe. I did get your error when I ran pip3 install tethne. Installing the development version seemed to work fine though pip3 install tethne --pre.

[sshojiro]

@jdamerow
Wow thank you for your comment, it was a great help to me and it worked! I'm looking forward to a stable version of the library for python3.