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import boto3 error

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Import boto3 always gives error. When I tries to import boto3 for the first time, Python gives error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from boto3.session import Session
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/session.py", line 17, in <module>
    import botocore.session
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/session.py", line 25, in <module>
    import botocore.configloader
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/configloader.py", line 19, in <module>
    from botocore.compat import six
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/compat.py", line 25, in <module>
    from botocore.exceptions import MD5UnavailableError
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/exceptions.py", line 15, in <module>
    from botocore.vendored.requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/__init__.py", line 58, in <module>
    from . import utils
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/utils.py", line 26, in <module>
    from .compat import parse_http_list as _parse_list_header
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/compat.py", line 7, in <module>
    from .packages import chardet
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/packages/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from . import urllib3
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/packages/urllib3/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .connectionpool import (
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 37, in <module>
    from .request import RequestMethods
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/packages/urllib3/request.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/packages/urllib3/filepost.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .fields import RequestField
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/packages/urllib3/fields.py", line 1, in <module>
    import email.utils
  File "email.py", line 2, in <module>
    from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
ImportError: cannot import name ClientError

If I try to import again, the error becomes

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from boto3.session import Session
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/session.py", line 17, in <module>
    import botocore.session
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/session.py", line 25, in <module>
    import botocore.configloader
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/configloader.py", line 19, in <module>
    from botocore.compat import six
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/compat.py", line 25, in <module>
    from botocore.exceptions import MD5UnavailableError
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/exceptions.py", line 15, in <module>
    from botocore.vendored.requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/__init__.py", line 58, in <module>
    from . import utils
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/botocore/vendored/requests/utils.py", line 25, in <module>
    from . import certs
ImportError: cannot import name certs

I have tried to use old version

boto3==1.4.4
botocore==1.5.95

And I also tried to upgrade to latest version

boto3==1.5.6
botocore==1.8.20

both of these give the same error.

AWS version that I use is

awscli==1.14.16
awsebcli==3.12.1

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:11 (2 by maintainers)

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8reactions

jiashenCcommented, Jan 10, 2018

Please look at this post

I think our mistake is to put our file named as email.py and Python cannot pick up the correct module as pointed by the post.

It is not related to package installation. Just rename the file.

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stealthycoincommented, Jan 18, 2018

Looks like @jiashenC figured it out.

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