AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlretrieve'

[benhosmer]

From within an activated virtualenv:

(myvenv) $ pip install virtual-node

Python Version: Python 3.4.3

It appears this module isn't compatible with Python 3?

[roadsideseb]

That's correct. Initially, it seemed that making the urlretrieve import work in a compatible way would fix the issue. Unfortunately it's not that simple. The NodeJS source package uses a large number of Python scripts to configure and build NodeJS. But they all only work on Python 2.x and are not Python 3.x compatible. I did some brief experiments with "fixing them" using 2to3 but that would have been too simple. Several incompatibilities can't be fixed through 2to3.

I'm not sure how much value there is in trying to make this module Python 3 compatible if the underlying tools that are required, don't support it. However, if somebody wants to spend the time to find a solution, I'm happy to review and merge it.

Sorry for the bad news 😭.

[benhosmer]

What about six?

I have a use case for this module for Python 3:

Jupyterhub requires Python 3, but also requires a node module. It would be great to have a pure python setup and configuration.