TypeError when pip installing directly from git

[adampbeardsley]

When running pip install git+https://github.com/nithyanandan/AstroUtils.git, we get a TypeError:

Running SecretStorage-2.3.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-2dYHJd/SecretStorage-2.3.1/egg-dist-tmp-PPzwfk
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-req-build-srUGpA/setup.py", line 54, in <module>
        zip_safe=False)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 128, in setup
        _install_setup_requires(attrs)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 123, in _install_setup_requires
        dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 514, in fetch_build_eggs
        replace_conflicting=True,
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 770, in resolve
        replace_conflicting=replace_conflicting
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1053, in best_match
        return self.obtain(req, installer)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1065, in obtain
        return installer(requirement)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 581, in fetch_build_egg
        return cmd.easy_install(req)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 673, in easy_install
        return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 699, in install_item
        dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 884, in install_eggs
        return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1152, in build_and_install
        self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1138, in run_setup
        run_setup(setup_script, args)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 233, in run_setup
        with setup_context(setup_dir):
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__
        return self.gen.next()
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 195, in setup_context
        yield
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 35, in __exit__
        self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 166, in save_modules
        saved_exc.resume()
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 141, in resume
        six.reraise(type, exc, self._tb)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 154, in save_modules
        yield saved
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 194, in setup_context
        __import__('setuptools')
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
        import setuptools.version
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
        import pkg_resources
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 77, in <module>
        __import__('pkg_resources.extern.packaging.requirements')
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/extern/__init__.py", line 43, in load_module
        __import__(extant)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/requirements.py", line 9, in <module>
        from pkg_resources.extern.pyparsing import stringStart, stringEnd, originalTextFor, ParseException
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/extern/__init__.py", line 43, in load_module
        __import__(extant)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 943, in <module>
        collections.MutableMapping.register(ParseResults)
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/abc.py", line 109, in register
        if issubclass(subclass, cls):
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/abc.py", line 180, in __subclasscheck__
        if issubclass(subclass, scls):
      File "/data4/beards/src/anaconda/envs/EPIC/lib/python2.7/site-packages/typing.py", line 1249, in __subclasscheck__
        return super(GenericMeta, self).__subclasscheck__(cls)
    TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not None