module 'six.moves' has no attribute 'collections_abc

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Environment details

• MacOS Catalina:
• Python version: 3.6.5
• pip version: 21.0.1
• google-api-python-client version: 2.0.2

Steps to reproduce

1. install google-api-python-client
2. run the code

Code example

youtube = discovery.build('youtube', 'v3', static_discovery=False)
request = youtube.search().list(
    part="snippet",
    maxResults=25,
    q="surfing"
)

response = request.execute()
print(response)

Stack trace

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-202-2092acf85a22> in <module>()
     24     print(response)
     25 
---> 26 serialized_users = search_users(queries)

<ipython-input-202-2092acf85a22> in search_users(queries)
      3     for query in queries:
      4         search_twitter(query, results)
----> 5         search_youtube(query, results)
      6     return results
      7 

<ipython-input-202-2092acf85a22> in search_youtube(query, results)
     14 
     15 def search_youtube(query, results):
---> 16     youtube = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', static_discovery=False)
     17     request = youtube.search().list(
     18         part="snippet",

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleapiclient/_helpers.py in positional_wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
    132                 elif positional_parameters_enforcement == POSITIONAL_WARNING:
    133                     logger.warning(message)
--> 134             return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
    135 
    136         return positional_wrapper

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py in build(serviceName, version, http, discoveryServiceUrl, developerKey, model, requestBuilder, credentials, cache_discovery, cache, client_options, adc_cert_path, adc_key_path, num_retries, static_discovery)
    292                 client_options=client_options,
    293                 adc_cert_path=adc_cert_path,
--> 294                 adc_key_path=adc_key_path,
    295             )
    296             break  # exit if a service was created

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleapiclient/_helpers.py in positional_wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
    132                 elif positional_parameters_enforcement == POSITIONAL_WARNING:
    133                     logger.warning(message)
--> 134             return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
    135 
    136         return positional_wrapper

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py in build_from_document(service, base, future, http, developerKey, model, requestBuilder, credentials, client_options, adc_cert_path, adc_key_path)
    491     if client_options is None:
    492         client_options = google.api_core.client_options.ClientOptions()
--> 493     if isinstance(client_options, six.moves.collections_abc.Mapping):
    494         client_options = google.api_core.client_options.from_dict(client_options)
    495 

AttributeError: module 'six.moves' has no attribute 'collections_abc'

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Thanks!

[ecoulson]

On the unrelated note, I agree. I was just trying to see if anything would fix it.

On the topic of six being too old, when i run pip show six --version I get this as the module data

Name: six
Version: 1.15.0
Summary: Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities
Home-page: https://github.com/benjaminp/six
Author: Benjamin Peterson
Author-email: [e-mail]
License: MIT
Location: /Users/evancoulson/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requires: 
Required-by: tweepy, traitlets, tables, Sphinx, singledispatch, scikit-image, QtAwesome, python-dateutil, pytest, pytest-remotedata, pytest-doctestplus, pytest-arraydiff, pyOpenSSL, pylint, protobuf, prompt-toolkit, patsy, pathlib2, packaging, nltk, more-itertools, matplotlib, html5lib, h5py, google-auth, google-auth-httplib2, google-api-python-client, google-api-core, Flask-Cors, distributed, cycler, cryptography, bokeh, bleach, bkcharts, astroid, anaconda-client

So I feel like it should be using the newest version of six

[busunkim96]

Hi,

It looks like the version of six that’s currently installed is too old. Could you try upgrading your version of six?

collections_abc was added in 1.13.0 (six changelog) so our setup.py pins six>=1.13.0. Strange things can happen in existing environments sometimes though.

Unrelated: I would strongly recommend going with static_discovery=True (the new default behavior) for better reliability. Otherwise behavior may change unexpectedly between different executions of the same code. https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/blob/master/UPGRADING.md#200-migration-guide