Documentation error for installing tests/requirements/py3.txt

[Vipin Chaudhary]

Hi,
I was installing tests/requirement/py3.txt as stated in django docs for contribution ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/contributing/

It was written that run

pip install -r py3.txt

i am running same on my mac OS but it always show problems in installing pylibmc and libmemcached to fix that i ran

brew install libmemcached
pip3 install -r py3.txt

because there was some python3 dependencies in it

so think that should be mentioned in docs that if its not installed by pip then try using pip3

[Tim Graham]

It looks like your virtualenv wasn't activated when you ran pip install ....

[Philip James]

I've run into this bug as well, and I definitely am in my py3 virtualenv.

(django) SensitiveDependence:django phildini$ which python3
/Users/phildini/.virtualenvs/django/bin/python3

I was coming here to see if I should file a bug and found this one. I note that we already call out windows in the requirements/py3.txt file, so it feels like there's precedent for special-casing OS's.

Is the correct approach here to update the docs, or skip these tests on mac, or do nothing?

[Tim Graham]

I'm not a mac OS user so I can't say for sure what the issue is here. What does "it always show problems in installing pylibmc and libmemcached" mean? My guess is that the equivalent of libmemcached-dev (Debian package) isn't installed. (​related StackOverflow). I think it's not Django's job to document the requirements of third-party packages. I'd rather enhance ​pylibmc's install instructions if needed.

[Tim Graham]

Feel free to propose some patch for Django's docs if my analysis isn't correct.