Distutil Error: Pip Version Build Fail

[ulasayyilmaz]

I am trying to deploy my latest commit which includes a secret key and value. I have added my variable to .env, and have imported both ‘import os’ and ‘from dotenv import load_dotenv’, using “load_dotenv()” and then “os.getenv(‘enginekey’)” in the appropriate place. I also added the .env in secret files in render/environments. This version I can not deploy to render because it raises the error below.

raise DistutilsError(str(e))
Mar 22 03:14:52 PM distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command ‘[’/opt/render/project/src/.venv/bin/python’, ‘-m’, ‘pip’, ‘–disable-pip-version-check’, ‘wheel’, ‘–no-deps’, ‘-w’, ‘/tmp/tmpvtmpigvc’, ‘–quiet’, ‘distribute’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1.
Mar 22 03:14:52 PM ----------------------------------------
Mar 22 03:14:52 PM ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
Mar 22 03:14:52 PM WARNING: You are using pip version 20.1.1; however, version 23.0.1 is available.

I already have pip 23.0.1 on vscode, and I don’t know if I need to upgrade pip through render, don’t know how to do it. Can you please help?

[al_ps]

Hi,

You could try upgrading pip, the command is usually shown on the next line after the logs you shared, e.g. a Build Command of:

pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -r requirements.txt

Also ensure you’re specifying a Python version to match the one you developed on.

Alan