Re: python37-requests package does depends on charset_normalizer or chardet

[Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 06:56:46PM +0800, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:37 PM Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
> <sharuzzaman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Cygwin package manager.
> >
> > I'm on my new laptop, and installing packages as necessary.
> >
> > After installing python37-requests, my program raised an exception like this:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "get_header.py", line 1, in <module>
> >     import requests
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line
> > 100, in <module>
> >     check_compatibility(urllib3.__version__, chardet_version,
> > charset_normalizer_version)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line
> > 85, in check_compatibility
> >     raise Exception("You need either charset_normalizer or chardet installed")
> > Exception: You need either charset_normalizer or chardet installed
> >
> > I did not see python37-requests depends or pulling in
> > charset_normalizer or chardet during installation. Is that
> > intentional?
> >
> > Thank you.
> 
> 
> Installing python37-chardet manually clears the exception, but not
> solving the initial issue.

It looks to me as though python37-requests correctly lists a dependency
on python37-chardet in Cygwin's setup.ini.  Can you please provide the
setup.log.full file from when you installed python37-requests, as well
as the cygcheck output per the link below?

> Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html