Permissions error with import pytz (in utils.py)

[domlowe]

I am getting a permissions error (Ubuntu) when trying to run owslib after an easy_install install on system python 2.7:

from owslib.sos import SensorObservationService
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OWSLib-0.8.9-py2.7.egg/owslib/sos.py", line 14, in
from swe.observation import sos100, sos200
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OWSLib-0.8.9-py2.7.egg/owslib/swe/observation/sos100.py", line 5, in
from owslib import ows
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OWSLib-0.8.9-py2.7.egg/owslib/ows.py", line 19, in
from owslib import crs, util
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OWSLib-0.8.9-py2.7.egg/owslib/util.py", line 14, in
import pytz
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytz-2014.7-py2.7.egg/pytz/init.py", line 29, in
from pkg_resources import resource_stream
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2825, in
add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 710, in subscribe
callback(dist)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2825, in
add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2257, in activate
self.insert_on(path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2364, in insert_on
self.check_version_conflict()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2403, in check_version_conflict
for modname in self._get_metadata('top_level.txt'):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2251, in _get_metadata
for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1219, in get_metadata_lines
return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1211, in get_metadata
return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info,name))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1326, in _get
stream = open(path, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt'

I suspect it is caused by this bug in the python dateutil package imported in util.py so not sure there is much can be done about it in OWSLib.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/dateutil/+bug/1243202

[domlowe]

OWSLib 0.8.9 was installed using:

$ sudo easy_install -U OWSLib

On xubuntu 13.10.

[domlowe]

For reference a temporary workaround is:
sudo chmod a+r /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/*.txt

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[geographika]

pytz removed in #949