Cannot install smartsheet-python-sdk

Question

I want to use the SmartSheet API. I am trying to install the SmartSheet module for Python from the following page:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/smartsheet-python-sdk

I have tried using the command sudo pip install smartsheet-python-sdk on Terminal.

I have tried using pip install smartsheet-python-sdk.

I'm not sure which is correct but I get the following error when I try to install it.

I tried manually installing this but wasn't sure how to do it after downloading it from GitHub.

I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.6.3 installed on my Mac.

1. Is this a Python version issue? If so, how do I uninstall Python 3? I installed it with Homebrew.
2. Is this a problem with six? I saw documentation about problems with six and tried to install it using pip with an "ignore six" at the end of the pip line.
3. Can I still use SmartSheet without the SmartSheet module for Python?
4. How do you install a module downloaded from GitHub? Which directory should it go in so it can be found by Terminal?

Requirement already satisfied: smartsheet-python-sdk in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages Requirement already satisfied: requests in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg (from smartsheet-python-sdk) Collecting six>=1.9 (from smartsheet-python-sdk) Using cached six-1.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Requirement already satisfied: certifi in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from smartsheet-python-sdk) Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python (from smartsheet-python-sdk) Requirement already satisfied: requests-toolbelt in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from smartsheet-python-sdk) Installing collected packages: six Found existing installation: six 1.4.1 DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (six) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project. Uninstalling six-1.4.1: Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run prefix=options.prefix_path, File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 778, in install requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 754, in uninstall paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 115, in remove renames(path, new_path) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/init.py", line 267, in renames shutil.move(old, new) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 302, in move copy2(src, real_dst) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 131, in copy2 copystat(src, dst) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 103, in copystat os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags) OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/pip-VF5C02-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

Answer 1

The error in your log is at the bottom:

OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:

This may be a problem with your python installation (New security issues on Sierra) This thread suggests reinstalling python as one possible solution.

brew install python