pip3 install -U setuptools

if setuptools are not found or needs upgrade

toml related errors causes the following errors:

• . scripts using steem-python will give the following error:

WARNING:urllib3.connectionpool:Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=0, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f465be17f28>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname',)': /

• . steempy will give the following error:

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/steempy", line 7, in <module>
    steem.cli.legacy()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/steem/cli.py", line 83, in legacy
    version=pkg_resources.require("steem")[0].version
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 984, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 875, in resolve
    raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req)
pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (toml 0.9.3 (/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('toml==0.9.3.1'), {'steem'})

how to fix ?

edit /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/steem-0.18.103.dist-info/METADATA and change

*toml (==0.9.3.1)*

to

*toml (==0.9.3)*

to test, do the following

steempy set nodes https://steemd.privex.io

and run

steempy

apt -y install software-properties-common
pip3 install -U setuptools
add-apt-repository -y ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
apt update ; apt -y install python3.6 libpython3.6-dev python3-pip
rm -f /usr/bin/python3 ; ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3
pip3 install -U setuptools
python3 -m pip install -U pip steem numpy
vim /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/steem-0.18.103.dist-info/METADATA