[14:19:58] <exarkun> sumanah: I just made a new virtualenv w/ python3 and ran the pip-compile command that way and it succeeded
[14:20:25] <exarkun> The only real hard part is that the traceback didn't indicate the cause of the problem
[14:20:39] <exarkun> I had to notice (actually have someone else notice for me) that recent sphinx releases are marked python3 only
[14:20:51] <sumanah> exarkun: huh.... maybe https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools/issues/827 would help?
[14:21:07] <sumanah> I don't use pip-tools myself so I'm looking at that issuetracker with completely new eyes :)
[14:21:18] <exarkun> eh I knew it was using python 2, I didn't know sphinx was python 3 only
[14:21:44] <exarkun> or I kind of knew it because I think I had a similar problem with pip itself before I started using pip-tools but it's not exactly the kind of fact that sticks at the top of my mind
[14:21:45] <sumanah> then maybe a debug mode (a different feature request) would have helped
[14:27:36] <sumanah> also exarkun feel free to skim https://discuss.python.org/t/packaging-and-python-2/662 in case you want to see other possible gotchas