Error when using mssql-cli with Python 3.10 latest version

Hi all, I’m writing this issue because I came across an error when using mssql-cli with the latest Pyton 3.10. Installation goes fine, however, when trying to run mssql-cli to connect to a local SQL Server instance, I got this:

PS C:\Users\Jorge> mssql-cli -S . -E
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\mssqlcli\main.py", line 122, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\mssqlcli\main.py", line 115, in main
    run_cli_with(mssqlcli_options)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\mssqlcli\main.py", line 44, in run_cli_with
    from mssqlcli.mssql_cli import MssqlCli
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\mssqlcli\mssql_cli.py", line 14, in <module>
    from cli_helpers.tabular_output import TabularOutputFormatter
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\cli_helpers\tabular_output\__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from .output_formatter import format_output, TabularOutputFormatter
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\cli_helpers\tabular_output\output_formatter.py", line 10, in <module>
    from . import (delimited_output_adapter, vertical_table_adapter,
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\cli_helpers\tabular_output\tabulate_adapter.py", line 4, in <module>
    from cli_helpers.packages import tabulate
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\cli_helpers\packages\tabulate.py", line 6, in <module>
    from collections import namedtuple, Iterable
ImportError: cannot import name 'Iterable' from 'collections' (C:\Python310\lib\collections\__init__.py)

From what I understood, it looks like mssql-cli has a dependency on cli-helpers which in turn depends on some tabular packages and the one for tabulate.py can’t find the Iterable type in “collections”. Could this mean that the dependencies need to be updated?

I’m not a Python developer, my background is .NET, so I’m not sure how to solve this. For now I’m planning on going back to Python 3.9 which I think it could work, I just wanted to point this out.

Thanks for your help on this.

Regards, Jorge

[nicholasyin]

Are you surprised how they simply ignore this and don’t want to fix it at all?

[tirkarthi]

tabulate was removed as a vendored package and added as a dependency. Perhaps you might want to upgrade cli_helpers package.

https://github.com/dbcli/cli_helpers/commit/a21650dd458d42936aa95ad41b8f676e81579b91