error in installing watson-machine-learning-client

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to install the watson-machine-learning-client module using pip. But it is showing the below error.

$ pip install watson-machine-learning-client
Collecting watson-machine-learning-client
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /pip-install-oRyoix/watson-machine-learning-client/

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You may get this error if you are using python 2 to install the package. This module is supported on Python 3.5 or newer versions. So install python3 in your system and then try to install this module.

Hope this helps!

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