Possible to run script/setup as non-privileged user? (i.e., not root)

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Trying to figure out how to get the full blown dev setup going for the purposes of being able to run tox and so forth, so I can actually submit code … is there a simple solution to be able to get things set up without having to run the script/setup as root? Is there a reason not to just edit the script/* files to run pip with --user ? (i.e., something else will also not work)

So far I haven’t gotten past it trying to pip install things because I’m running it as a non-privileged user.

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You should use a virtual environment. Read about it here under “Setting up virtual environment”:

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Thanks, that solved it. As someone relatively new to Python this was not obviously the solution, I didn’t see any mention of anything along the lines of "if you can’t or don’t want to setup your environment as root, then you should … " - but maybe I just missed it?

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Well I got further, but I’m running into an odd issue where during lint process either temperusb==1.5.3 or thingspeak==0.4.1 fails to install, with an error something like the following:

Collecting temperusb==1.5.3 (from -r /home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/requirements_all.txt (line 922))
  Downloading temperusb-1.5.3.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-jx__xkc9/temperusb/setup.py", line 10, in <module>
        long_description=open('README.md').read(),
      File "/home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/.tox/lint/lib64/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2304: ordinal not in range(128)

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-jx__xkc9/temperusb/

ERROR: could not install deps [-r/home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/requirements_all.txt, -r/home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/requirements_test.txt, -c/home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/homeassistant/package_constraints.txt]; v = InvocationError('/usr/bin/env LANG=C.UTF-8 pip install -r/home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/requirements_all.txt -r/home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/requirements_test.txt -c/home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/homeassistant/package_constraints.txt (see /home/devuser/ha/home-assistant/.tox/lint/log/lint-1.log)', 1)

It seems to be random which one fails, and I’ve tried this on two different systems. If I activate the tox venv’s for each python version I can install them just fine, but linting will still fail with that error.

This could be a bug in something because both module’ setup.py specify that they are utf-8 encoded README’s, so ASCII failing to process is not necessarily surprising …

However I would expect things to fail the same way every time if that’s the case. It seems non-deterministic. Is the order in which modules are installed during this process supposed to be non-deterministic?

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Spun up a Debian Jessie VM and seems to work there (minus some new errors about typing: commands failed). So there’s something that doesn’t work about CentOS 7, it seems.