Installation issue - Missing api.py

[akanksha4lal]

Description

Every time we set up a new machine to run the gauge python, I run into issue where
from getgauge import api
step fails.
We have to remove , reinstall and somehow it comes. Or manually get the getgauge files and put it there from other machine.

We follow the instructions given here : http://gauge-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

and always used pip to install the getgauge

Steps to reproduce

1. Install getgauge
2. Install gauge python plugin
3. Run spec file

Information that will help us debug

• Gauge version 0.7.0
• Gauge Python plugin version 0.1.7
• Python version 2.7.10
• getgauge package version, run pip3 show getgauge to get it : 0.1.7
• OS information Mac OS Sierra

[kashishm]

@akanksha4lal This might happen when getgauge package is missing or pip has installed it for python3 and the project uses python2.7.

One way to verify this would be to check if the package is present in python2.7 site-packages. Run the following command

$ python2.7
>>> from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
>>> print get_python_lib()

And check if the getgauge package exists in the path printed by the above command. If the package is not present then you will have to configure pip for python2.7.

[akanksha4lal]

@kashishm
I don't have python3. There is only 2.7 version installed. Its not that getgauge is entirely absent, specifically api.py and validator.py are the two files which are missing. Rest of the package comes in.
This has happened on multiple MacOS machines. Adding these files manually resolves the problem.