the problem there is a clear ABI type mismatch for

cffi-1.11.1-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

vs whatever interpreter you’re executing with (which if on linux, is usually

cp27mu

where the

u

is “wide unicode” aka UCS4 vs UCS2)

thanks! will take another whack at this this afternoon -- just had never seen this particular error before and was tired