Cloudant Module Will Not Install With Pip

trying to install the cloudant module on a raspberry pi ver 1 rev b using the instructions from IBM's web page. first: git clone https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/get-started-python the

Solution 1:

Parameter encoding was added to open() in Python 3.0. This code in setup.py is Python3-only despite the packages declares compatibility with Python2. Please note they provide wheels only for Python3.

Either using encoding is a bug or declaring compatibility with Python2 is a bug. Which one is for the authors to decide. Report the problem and let's them to resolve.

Or try Python3.