Pip doesn't install Twisted on Windows

Question

I am trying to install Twisted on a Windows 8 computer. On the official Twisted website, there is only one Wheel file for windows.

https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads

I already installed Zope and PyWin32.

But when I do :

pip install Twisted-16.0.0-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl

I get :

Twisted-16.0.0-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform

I have seen and tried the solutions of these 2 topics :

filename.whl is not supported wheel on this platform and How do I install a Python package with a .whl file?

pip is up-to-date, CPython2.7 is installed, I tried with

python -m pip intall

and

path\to\pip install

None of it worked.

What am I missing, what have I not tried ?

Are you using a 64 bit version of Python 2.7 to match the 64 bit wheel that you're installing? — Rod Hyde, Mar 29 '16 at 08:48
My gosh ! It's a 32bit version, I'm installing a 64 bits right now ! Thanks — erjon, Mar 29 '16 at 08:53

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 09:30

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Use this link. http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#twisted.

Its a repository for unofficial modules, but works every time for me. Use win32 version.

answered Mar 29 '16 at 09:30

Manish Gupta

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Thanks ! But installing a 64 bit version of Python fixed the problem ! – erjon Mar 29 '16 at 09:33
A quick suggestion. bookmark that link as many modules are not available for windows directly. Might be helpful in future... – Manish Gupta Mar 29 '16 at 09:36
I always go to that link when pip fails to install a library ... which happens often on windows. – justengel Apr 01 '16 at 10:07
install Twisted from its unofficial repository for 64 bit version of windows 10 and now its working fine for me. – Rakesh Kumar Jan 18 '21 at 04:04

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 13 '19 at 19:41

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I had the same problem too but I solved it as follow: Open the Anaconda Prompt as administrator (For Windows10: open cortana/write Anaconda Prompt/choose Run as Administrator)

You should go to the path of Anaconda, for me was like:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd ..
C:\WINDOWS>cd..
C:\>cd  ProgramData
C:\ProgramData>cd Anaconda3
C:\ProgramData>Anaconda3>

Then you should run the following command

C:\ProgramData>Anaconda3>conda install -c anaconda twisted

At some point it asks

Proceed ([y]/n)?

type y. Now twisted is installed.

edited Feb 13 '19 at 19:41

Eric Aya

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answered Feb 13 '19 at 18:37

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Thanks that worked for me. I think the solution is to use conda instead of pip. – khaled Fouda Jan 21 '21 at 21:54

erjon · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-31T07:43:56.150

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Answering my own post.

As Rod Hyde commented, only the 64 bit version of python is officialy supported by Twisted.

Edit to answer anatoly : Under the Windows Download section of Twisted, it is written "Twisted 16.0.0 for Python 2.7 64 bits"

edited Mar 31 '16 at 07:43

answered Mar 29 '16 at 09:42

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Is there a proof link? – anatoly techtonik Mar 30 '16 at 15:40
Well the only thing I can come up with is this : https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads, Under the Windows section it is written Twisted 16.0.0 for Python 2.7 **64 bits** – erjon Mar 31 '16 at 07:39
32-bit are still supported. Just not available yet - https://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2016-April/030266.html – anatoly techtonik Apr 13 '16 at 11:54

anatoly techtonik · Answer 4 · 2016-05-02T13:39:43.627

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The Windows XP that was building 32-bit Twisted wheels was decommissioned, so no builds are being built. People propose to install 32-bit toolchain on 64-bit Windows builder, so they might get back soon.

See https://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2016-March/030227.html

And https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8314

edited May 02 '16 at 13:39

answered Apr 01 '16 at 10:04

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 09 '21 at 14:48

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This is very simple on windows. You need to install Twisted seperately.

Just 2 steps:

pip install pipwin
pipwin install Twisted

answered Jan 09 '21 at 14:48

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 18 '21 at 04:07

The recommended way is to run pip install Twisted, preferably inside a virtualenv.

If you are installing on macOS, pip install Twisted[macos_platform] will install the macOS-specific requirements.

If you are installing on Windows, pip install Twisted[windows_platform] will install the Windows-specific requirements.

https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads

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