Python- how to install pyvttbl in jupyter notebook - python-3.x

Question

I tried installing it using !pip install
!pip install pyvttbl
and it gives me this message
Requirement already satisfied: pyvttbl
Requirement already satisfied: dictset
Requirement already satisfied: pystaggrelite3
However, when I import it as
import pyvttbl as pt
it gives me
ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-7-89ef5f67d382> in <module>()
----> 1 import pyvttbl as pt
D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pyvttbl\__init__.py in <module>()
8 # This software is funded in part by NIH Grant P20 RR016454.
9
---> 10 from base import PyvtTbl, DataFrame
11
12 from misc import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'base'
When I try to install base as
!pip install base
it gives me this
Collecting base
Using cached base-1.0.4.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-u1xkw0lp\base\setup.py", line 40, in <module>
LONG_DESCRIPTION = read("README.rst")
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-u1xkw0lp\base\setup.py", line 21, in read
return codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
File "D:\Anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 5: character maps to <undefined>
Can someone help me understand the problem?

Answer 1

Background
Pyvttbl is no longer actively maintained which is why you are having some difficulty.
I assume that you are using python 3.x and it seems to me that pyvttbl will only work for python 2.7 right now.
Solution
NOTE: only applies to systems running jupyter notebook through Anaconda.
I managed to get this to work in my python 2.7 environment. However I could not reproduce a working install for in a new env. So I exported my py27 env as a .yml file that you can clone through these steps;
1) Download and unzip the .yml env from this gist
2) cd to the location of the unzipped .yml file.
3) Create the clone of my py27 env using the following command;
conda env create -f py27.yml
4) Once conda finishes the install then activate the env;
activate py27
5) Then this env to your list of jupyter notebook kernels with the following;
ipython kernel install --name py27
Now when you start jupyter notebook you can choose to create a py27 notebook when you click the new button. After that you should be able to run pyttbl.
Please comment below if you are still having issues.