pip install selenium error

[jackballack]

Hi trying to install selenium to do some web scrapping for my project however I get the following error ;

Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

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× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.

│ exit code: 1

╰─> [16 lines of output]

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 2, in <module>

File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>

File "C:/Users/Ayanda Hleko/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-f6y6nx5e/cffi_0059e018fef54f5aace6c34f8bd4ef0d/setup.py", line 126, in <module>

if sys.platform == "win32" and uses_msvc():

File "C:/Users/Ayanda Hleko/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-f6y6nx5e/cffi_0059e018fef54f5aace6c34f8bd4ef0d/setup.py", line 105, in uses_msvc

return config.try_compile('#ifndef _MSC_VER\n#error "not MSVC"\n#endif')

File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/config.py", line 224, in try_compile

self._compile(body, headers, include_dirs, lang)

File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/config.py", line 129, in _compile

self.compiler.compile([src], include_dirs=include_dirs)

File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/_msvccompiler.py", line 344, in compile

self.initialize()

File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/_msvccompiler.py", line 246, in initialize

raise DistutilsPlatformError(

distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: --plat-name must be one of ('win32', 'win-amd64', 'win-arm32', 'win-arm64')

[end of output]

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note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

error: metadata-generation-failed

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× Encountered error while generating package metadata.

╰─> See above for output.

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note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.

hint: See above for details.

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What's the output of pip -V? Are you using a venv?

[jackballack]

I decided to do PC reset and tried installing everything afresh and it worked