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ImportError: cannot import name ReadTimeoutError when trying to create s3 client

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trying to create a boto3 s3 client on EMR Master node.

boto3 version: 1.9.90
requests version 1.2.3
python 2.7.14

just running this in the python interpreter: s3 = boto3.client('s3')

I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/__init__.py", line 91, in client
    return _get_default_session().client(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/session.py", line 263, in client
    aws_session_token=aws_session_token, config=config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/session.py", line 861, in create_client
    client_config=config, api_version=api_version)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/client.py", line 70, in create_client
    cls = self._create_client_class(service_name, service_model)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/client.py", line 95, in _create_client_class
    base_classes=bases)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/hooks.py", line 227, in emit
    return self._emit(event_name, kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/botocore/hooks.py", line 210, in _emit
    response = handler(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/utils.py", line 61, in _handler
    module = import_module(module)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/utils.py", line 52, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/s3/inject.py", line 15, in <module>
    from boto3.s3.transfer import create_transfer_manager
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/s3/transfer.py", line 129, in <module>
    from s3transfer.manager import TransferConfig as S3TransferConfig
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/s3transfer/manager.py", line 21, in <module>
    from s3transfer.utils import get_callbacks
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/s3transfer/utils.py", line 27, in <module>
    from botocore.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
ImportError: cannot import name ReadTimeoutError

This appears to be a package structure problem to me

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sqNutriencommented, Feb 11, 2019

honestly, I don’t know what version of botocore I had… I ended up specifying the following versions and everything worked nicely for me after that: botocore==1.12.91 urllib3==1.24.1 boto3==1.9.91

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czechnologycommented, Feb 12, 2019

Update: It turns out the problem was a mismatch between the provided boto libraries in AWS Lambda and the libraries I packaged into my Lambda code.

boto3: 1.7.74 
botocore: 1.10.74 
s3transfer: 0.2.0 
urllib3: 1.24.1

cannot import name 'ReadTimeoutError': ImportError
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/task/awstools/core.py", line 59, in __init__
s3 = boto3.client('s3')
File "/var/runtime/boto3/session.py", line 263, in client
aws_session_token=aws_session_token, config=config)
File "/var/runtime/botocore/session.py", line 885, in create_client
client_config=config, api_version=api_version)
File "/var/runtime/botocore/client.py", line 70, in create_client
cls = self._create_client_class(service_name, service_model)
File "/var/runtime/botocore/client.py", line 95, in _create_client_class
base_classes=bases)
File "/var/runtime/botocore/hooks.py", line 227, in emit
return self._emit(event_name, kwargs)
File "/var/runtime/botocore/hooks.py", line 210, in _emit
response = handler(**kwargs)
File "/var/runtime/boto3/utils.py", line 61, in _handler
module = import_module(module)
File "/var/runtime/boto3/utils.py", line 52, in import_module
__import__(name)
File "/var/runtime/boto3/s3/inject.py", line 15, in <module>
from boto3.s3.transfer import create_transfer_manager
File "/var/runtime/boto3/s3/transfer.py", line 129, in <module>
from s3transfer.manager import TransferConfig as S3TransferConfig
File "/var/task/s3transfer/manager.py", line 21, in <module>
from s3transfer.utils import get_callbacks
File "/var/task/s3transfer/utils.py", line 27, in <module>
from botocore.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
ImportError: cannot import name 'ReadTimeoutError'

Fixed once I improved my packaging approach. Thanks!