bug while installing for local user

[drupchen]

pip3 install --user tibetan-sort

fails and outputs:

Installing collected packages: tibetan-sort
    Running setup.py install for tibetan-sort ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q7lvfvay/tibetan-sort_925f19653ed946ddbad5b8615bfc9f4b/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q7lvfvay/tibetan-sort_925f19653ed946ddbad5b8615bfc9f4b/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-qmlb79i6/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /root/.local/include/python3.8/tibetan-sort
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-q7lvfvay/tibetan-sort_925f19653ed946ddbad5b8615bfc9f4b/
    Complete output (26 lines):
    running install
    /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py:34: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
      warnings.warn(
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-q7lvfvay/tibetan-sort_925f19653ed946ddbad5b8615bfc9f4b/setup.py", line 20, in <module>
        setuptools.setup(
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 153, in setup
        return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
        return run_commands(dist)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 163, in run_commands
        dist.run_commands()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 967, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
        cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
        self.finalize_options()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 45, in finalize_options
        orig.install.finalize_options(self)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/install.py", line 429, in finalize_options
        self.create_home_path()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/install.py", line 639, in create_home_path
        if path.startswith(home) and not os.path.isdir(path):
    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q7lvfvay/tibetan-sort_925f19653ed946ddbad5b8615bfc9f4b/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q7lvfvay/tibetan-sort_925f19653ed946ddbad5b8615bfc9f4b/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-qmlb79i6/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /root/.local/include/python3.8/tibetan-sort Check the logs for full command output.

Luckily the same command without --user installs just fine.