ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' from 'lxml'

[kozerskil]

Problem/Motivation

I'm trying to install myfitnesspal and getting the error: ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' from 'lxml' (/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lxml/init.py)

Actual behavior

2022-05-24 12:49:08.379061 WARNING Error: ------------------------------------------------------------
2022-05-24 12:49:08.441239 WARNING Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/appdaemon/app_management.py", line 993, in check_app_updates
    await utils.run_in_executor(self, self.read_app, mod["name"], mod["reload"])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/appdaemon/utils.py", line 337, in run_in_executor
    response = future.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 52, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/appdaemon/app_management.py", line 784, in read_app
    self.modules[module_name] = importlib.import_module(module_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/config/appdaemon/apps/weight.py", line 2, in <module>
    import myfitnesspal
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/myfitnesspal/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from myfitnesspal.client import Client  # noqa
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/myfitnesspal/client.py", line 10, in <module>
    import lxml.html
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 53, in <module>
    from .. import etree
ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' from 'lxml' (/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lxml/__init__.py)
2022-05-24 12:49:08.442924 WARNING Error: ------------------------------------------------------------

Steps to reproduce

My configuration:

init_commands:
  - pip freeze
python_packages:
  - myfitnesspal
system_packages:
  - py3-wheel

freeze result:

aiodns==3.0.0
aiohttp==3.8.1
aiohttp-jinja2==1.5
aiosignal==1.2.0
appdaemon==4.2.1
appdirs==1.4.4
asn1crypto==1.4.0
astral==2.2
async-timeout==4.0.2
attrs==21.4.0
azure-common==1.1.28
azure-core==1.23.0
azure-keyvault-secrets==4.3.0
azure-mgmt-compute==23.1.0
azure-mgmt-core==1.3.0
azure-mgmt-resource==20.0.0
azure-mgmt-storage==19.0.0
azure-storage-blob==12.9.0
bcrypt==3.2.0
bidict==0.21.4
blessed==1.19.1
CacheControl==0.12.10
cchardet==2.1.7
certifi==2020.12.5
cffi==1.14.5
charset-normalizer==2.0.7
colorama==0.4.4
commonmark==0.9.1
contextlib2==21.6.0
cryptography==3.3.2
deepdiff==5.7.0
distlib==0.3.3
distro==1.6.0
feedparser==6.0.8
frozenlist==1.3.0
html5lib==1.1
idna==3.3
iso8601==1.0.2
isodate==0.6.1
jeepney==0.8.0
Jinja2==3.0.3
keyring==21.8.0
lockfile==0.12.2
lxml==4.8.0
MarkupSafe==2.1.0
measurement==3.2.0
mpmath==1.2.1
msgpack==1.0.2
msrest==0.6.21
multidict==6.0.2
myfitnesspal==1.17.0
oauthlib==3.2.0
ordered-set==4.0.2
packaging==20.9
paho-mqtt==1.6.1
pep517==0.12.0
pid==3.0.4
progress==1.6
pycares==4.1.2
pycparser==2.20
Pygments==2.10.0
pyparsing==2.4.7
python-dateutil==2.8.2
python-engineio==4.3.0
python-socketio==5.5.0
pytz==2021.3
PyYAML==6.0
requests==2.26.0
requests-oauthlib==1.3.1
retrying==1.3.3
rich==9.13.0
SecretStorage==3.3.2
sgmllib3k==1.0.0
six==1.16.0
sockjs==0.11.0
sympy==1.10.1
toml==0.10.2
tomli==1.2.2
typing-extensions==3.10.0.2
urllib3==1.26.7
uvloop==0.16.0
voluptuous==0.12.2
wcwidth==0.2.5
webencodings==0.5.1
websocket-client==1.2.3
yarl==1.7.2

[kozerskil]

With a simple configuration:

init_commands:
  - pip freeze
python_packages:
  - lxml
system_packages: []

this simple script has same error:

import lxml.html

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