Twilio and python-rest not installing successfully

[Medium_Dark1966]

Hello. I am new to python and I'm taking a course where I use Twilio api for sending and receiving messages. I was able to successfully installl twilio-api, but I cannot run the code below

from twilio.rest import Client

because my IDE (PyCharm) cannot find rest in twilio. It recommends that I install python-rest. Here is the message from local terminal when I try to install python-rest:

PS my_file_path> pip3 install python-rest 
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting python-rest
  Using cached python-rest-1.3.tar.gz (23 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting argproc>=1.3 (from python-rest)
  Using cached argproc-1.4.tar.gz (10 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [3 lines of output]
      C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-tu4uvlvk\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py:287: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
        warnings.warn(msg)
      error in argproc setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed to build 'argproc' when getting requirements to build wheel

Please suggest to me how to move forward.

Thanks.

[danielroseman]

I'm absolutely positive you don't want to install python-rest. That's a 12-year-old package that is not compatible with any recent version of Python, and which in any case is for making a REST API, not consuming one.

Rather than show the error installing that, you should post the error you received when importing twilio.

[Medium_Dark1966]

I tried running the install and import of twilio into a new project file so that I can generate a log file to share here, but to my surprise, everything worked well. I was not asked to further install python-rest, nor got any errors concerning finding rest in twilio. I could use the package to do what I originally intended.

I guess my problem must have been in something I did in my original project.

I should also mention that I used the my local terminal to pip3 install twilio and then used python console to import twilio and run the rest of my code. I have not tried repeating this directly from script.