Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-install-xkffs1ax/word2vec/

Question

I'm trying to install word2vec, but I keep on getting this error when I run pip install word2vec

    Collecting word2vec
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/98/9c/0cc6019be231950235517c29d2d6a2fca76dfa75ad4162ccce22fb1b4364/word2vec-0.9.4.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/zj/z4d6pnbj461cs58zwdrqmbc00000gn/T/pip-install-wSs7Uz/word2vec/setup.py", line 23, in <module>
        from Cython.Build import cythonize
    ImportError: No module named Cython.Build

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/zj/z4d6pnbj461cs58zwdrqmbc00000gn/T/pip-install-wSs7Uz/word2vec/

Python and pip version:

pip version: 19.0.1

python version: 3.6.5

Answer 1

Turns out there was some error with my installation of python.

Running the brew reinstall python and then running pip3 install word2vec seems to have solved the issue.