Apple Swift is overriding Openstack swift package

Question

I have installed OpenStack swift python client (pip install python-swiftclient). However /usr/bin has swift executable (which I can not remove as it is owned by root) and is overriding python swift.

Requirement already satisfied: python-swiftclient in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages

Requirement already satisfied: requests>=1.1 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from python-swiftclient)

Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5.2 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/six-1.10.0-py2.7.egg (from python-swiftclient)

Requirement already satisfied: futures>=3.0; python_version == "2.7" or python_version == "2.6" in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from python-swiftclient)

However, I am unable to find python swift anywhere. Please let me know how to resolve this.

Many Thanks Chen

Answer 1

After reading this post "OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted" when installing Scrapy in OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) (System Integrity Protection) and the response by Mario, following commands did the trick

brew unlink python
brew install python
sudo pip install python-swiftclient

and the python swiftclient does get installed in cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages which previously it did not.

Answer 2

For me, Apple Swift is under /usr/bin/swift and python-swiftclient is under /usr/bin/local/swift. Explicitly invoking it as /usr/bin/local/swift works.