Installing via pip not working

[Jacob Graves]

Repro:
Create new ubuntu or debian box
$sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python -y
$sudo apt-get install python-pip
$sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools
$pip install yahoofantasy

Error in any yahoofantasy command
$ yahoofantasy login
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/username/.local/bin/yahoofantasy", line 6, in
from yahoofantasy.cli import yahoofantasy
File "/home/username/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yahoofantasy/init.py", line 1, in
from .context import Context # noqa: F401
File "/home/username/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yahoofantasy/context.py", line 67
def _load_or_fetch(self, persist_path, *args, return_parsed=True, **kwargs):
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[Jacob Graves]

I suspect that this is related to me installing python 2.7 instead of python3. Can you confirm?

[Matt Dodge]

Indeed, this library will require python 3. Try installing that (I'd recommend it anyway, python 2 has been end of life for quite some time) and see if you're able get this running then.