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ImportError: cannot import name __version__
See original GitHub issueTried to install this packaged via
pip3 install pipreqs
which succeeded without error. However, I am unable to run it from the command line or import the library via the Python interpreter. In both cases I get the traceback below:
Python 3.5.3 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:11:04)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170118] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pipreqs
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/users/me/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pipreqs/pipreqs.py", line 37, in <module>
from pipreqs import __version__
ImportError: cannot import name '__version__'
Environment info
- Python 3.5.3
Output of uname -a
Linux ace-ws-15 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Issue Analytics
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- Created 5 years ago
- Comments:7
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Although the question is a little bit old, I still consider relevant since I’ve faced the exactly same problem and the solution I found was to downgrade the “pipreqs” module to 0.4.8.
Btw… my scenario is different than presented here… The python version is 2.7.18 and according to the “History” session within “pipreqs” website (https://pypi.org/project/pipreqs) I’ve decided to teste version 0.4.8 based on the release date.
I ran into the same issue because I was running the pipreqs.py file from site-packages to avoid adding it to path on windows. I called the file directly and it could not find version.
A fix for this is to edit the init.py file in the site-packages and copy all of the code defining author, email, and version
and paste it into the pipreqs.py file in place of
On line 50. (Removing that import statement and defining the version in the file itself)