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ImportError: cannot import name deletetweets

See original GitHub issue

whenever I try to execute delete-tweets it raises the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "env/bin/delete-tweets", line 5, in <module>
    from deletetweets.__main__ import main
  File "/Users/carlos.vega/Documents/deletetweets/twitter-2019-12-08/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/deletetweets/__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from deletetweets import deletetweets
ImportError: cannot import name deletetweets

Either from a virtualenv or system wide.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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sschoenithcommented, Dec 10, 2019

I was able to fix this by:

navigating to deletetweets location pip install location (for me, /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deletetweets)
open main.py
comment out line 7
add “import deletetweets” on line 8
re run deletetweets

That being said, its probably not a proper fix… but it works.

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koenrhcommented, Dec 29, 2019

My apologies for the delay.

As Python 2 is reaching end of life in just two days, could you try using Python 3? If you already have Python3 installed: uninstall the package, and then force the package to be installed using Python 3 python3 -m pip delete-tweets.