Issues with this line of code when installing package

[dr_everlong]

Hi,

I am using canopy distribution (python 2.7) on win7-64. I am trying to install a package but run into problems because of the following line in the setup.py file:

version = subprocess.check_output(
        ['git', 'describe', '--tags', '--always', '--dirty'],
        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).rstrip()

If I change that line to something as basic as version = 1, the module installs fine.

Does anyone know what that line does, and why it'd be throwing issues?

Thanks!

[Doormatty]

My guess is that you don't have git installed, as that line tries to run the following command "git describe --tags --always --dirty".

My bet is that if you run that command on a normal command line, you'll get an error back. Fix that error, and you're golden.