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aws-cdk is incompatible with python 3.8.0 because of a bug in jsii

See original GitHub issue

In python 3.8.0, when you attempt to run any cdk cli functions, you end up with the following import error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app.py", line 3, in <module>
    from aws_cdk import core
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aws_cdk/core/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    import jsii
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jsii/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from ._runtime import (
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jsii/_runtime.py", line 6, in <module>
    from jsii import _reference_map
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jsii/_reference_map.py", line 6, in <module>
    from ._kernel.types import JSClass, Referenceable
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jsii/_kernel/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from jsii._kernel.providers import BaseProvider, ProcessProvider
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jsii/_kernel/providers/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from jsii._kernel.providers.process import ProcessProvider
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jsii/_kernel/providers/process.py", line 15, in <module>
    import cattr  # type: ignore
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cattr/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .converters import Converter, UnstructureStrategy
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cattr/converters.py", line 15, in <module>
    from ._compat import (
  File "/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/***/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cattr/_compat.py", line 86, in <module>
    from typing import _Union
ImportError: cannot import name '_Union' from 'typing' (/Users/***/.pyenv/versions/3.8.0/lib/python3.8/typing.py)
Subprocess exited with error 1

This does not happen in python 3.7.4. I have opened a bug report in the jsii module: https://github.com/aws/jsii/issues/913.

Reproduction Steps

Given python 3.8.0 is installed:

cdk ls

Error Log

Environment

CLI Version : aws-cli/1.16.260 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.0.0 botocore/1.12.250
Framework Version: 1.14.0 (build 261a1bf)
OS : MacOS 10.15.1 beta
Language : Python 3.8.0

Other

Initial fix should be to only allow python 3.7 until the jsii bug is fixed.

This is 🐛 Bug Report

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

vennempcommented, Oct 14, 2020

I am having this issue with python 3.9.

0reactions

burningalchemistcommented, Oct 17, 2020

@vennemp It’s the same thing because of cattr dependency, which doesn’t support Python 3.9 yet (but it’s almost here) - https://github.com/Tinche/cattrs/issues/100 😃

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