Pythonpipbuilder: resolve dependencies - list index out of range

Question

Description: I am trying to use sam build with the following requirements but its throwing the error: Pythonpipbuilder: resolve dependencies - list index out of range

pyotp
ulid-py
aws_encryption_sdk
boto3
requests
attrs
cryptography

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Create a virtual env.
Activate virtual env in a terminal
pip install -r requirements.txt
sam build

Observed result: Build Failed Error: PythonPipBuilder:ResolveDependencies - list index out of range

Expected result: Build Succeeded

Additional environment details Amazon Linux 2 Workspace Python3.8

user_9420686 · Answer

If you encounter this problem you have to use sam build --use-container in other to go around the problem with the requirements.txt Its a well known issue and a GitHub issue has been submitted https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-builders/issues/229#issuecomment-841407255

user_2751431 · Answer

I had the same failure when my serverless application specified Runtime as python3.6, while the environment was using Python3.7.

Pythonpipbuilder: resolve dependencies - list index out of range

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