python hashlib fails to install pip

Question

I have a script that depends on hashlib, but when I try sudo pip install hashlib I get this:

$ sudo pip install hashlib
Collecting hashlib
  Downloading hashlib-20081119.zip (42kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 610kB/s 
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
        from setuptools.extension import Extension
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/extension.py", line 8, in <module>
        from .dist import _get_unpatched
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 16, in <module>
        from setuptools.depends import Require
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/depends.py", line 6, in <module>
        from setuptools import compat
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/compat.py", line 17, in <module>
        import httplib
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 80, in <module>
        import mimetools
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/mimetools.py", line 6, in <module>
        import tempfile
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 35, in <module>
        from random import Random as _Random
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 49, in <module>
        import hashlib as _hashlib
      File "hashlib.py", line 115, in <module>
        f()
    TypeError: 'frozenset' object is not callable

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-BbiB5F/hashlib/

What can I do to fix this?

Solution 1

Had the same error. Try easy_install hashlib

Solution 2

I encountered the same problem on the latest Ubuntu 16 Desktop.
The quick and dirty fix is to remove the /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.x86_64-linux-gnu.so file.

Solution 3

After remove /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.x86_64-linux-gnu.so, I need run one more step

sudo pip install python-dev

After that, run sudo pip install hashlib successfully.

Comments

[temple]

save my time and save my life!

[Ole Henrik Skogstrøm]

Ironically this gives me the error: "ImportError: No module named hashlib"... Any philosophers or ubuntu wranglers out there that want to try explaining that one?

[Sim]

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and this answer did not solve the issue whereas the other did (remove file and reinstall hashlib)

[Sergey Vlasov]

It failed for me on RPi 3+ with python 3.7.3