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Breaking change: 1.8.1 breaks PyInstaller apps and any scenario where library is not installed with pip

See original GitHub issue

Environment details

OS type and version: ANY
Python version: ANY
pip version: ANY (or N/A)
google-api-python-client version: 1.8.1

Steps to reproduce

Install 1.8.1
Attempt to compile Python app that uses googleapiclient to an executable

Expected results

executable compiles and runs as it did with 1.8.0 library

Actual results

executable compiles but fails at runtime with:

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘google-api-python-client’ distribution was not found and is required by the application

this is due to removing googleapiclient.version and replacing with:

https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/blob/master/googleapiclient/model.py#L36

these issues will also occur if the library was not installed via pip (e.g. just cloned into a sub directory of the script).

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:23 (9 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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SeanCodeMediacommented, May 8, 2020

Hey guys, I had the same issue with pyinstaller what did the trick for me was to roll back from google-api-python-client from version 1.8.2 to 1.8.0. I hope this issue gets fixed soon. It wasn’t fixed in 1.8.2 as commented due to the fact I was facing the same issue on 1.8.2

python -m pip install google-api-python-client==1.8.0

Thanks

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DataSolveProblemscommented, Jun 19, 2020

Roll back to google-api-python-client 1.8.0 worked for me. Thanks BoxingStudioGames. Wasted a good 3 hours fixing this issue this morning… with the latest version google-api-python-client.