unable to run zotcli: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

[sebastianbock17]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/test/.local/bin//zotcli", line 5, in <module>
    from zotero_cli.main import cli
  File "/home/test/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/zotero_cli/main.py", line 8, in <module>
    import ConfigParser
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

However, I have ConfigParser Installed:

Requirement already satisfied: ConfigParser in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (5.2.0)

What could I do now?

Kind regards :)

[tigerjack]

@yetipowers Did you have any problems during installation? For me, there is a problem with pathlib installation in python 3.10 leading to this problem

Collecting pathlib>=1.0.1
  Downloading pathlib-1.0.1.tar.gz (49 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 49 kB 3.9 MB/s             
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ab9bu1go/pathlib_b726ca21851d47e291260824c74a796a/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ab9bu1go/pathlib_b726ca21851d47e291260824c74a796a/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-qkq_x2rg
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-ab9bu1go/pathlib_b726ca21851d47e291260824c74a796a/
    Complete output (13 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
        import setuptools.version
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
        import pkg_resources
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
        import zipfile
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/zipfile.py", line 19, in <module>
        import pathlib
      File "/tmp/pip-install-ab9bu1go/pathlib_b726ca21851d47e291260824c74a796a/pathlib.py", line 10, in <module>
        from collections import Sequence
    ImportError: cannot import name 'Sequence' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py)

From a quick read, I think the import should be from collections.abc and not from collections. Indeed, on python 3.9, you have

<ipython-input-1-8844d1891ca7>:1: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3, and in 3.10 it will stop working

Not sure how to fix it though.

[tigerjack]

I hacked the problem by modifying the system file for collections, which in my ArchLinux is /usr/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py. Right after import _collections_abc I added from _collections_abc import Sequence.

To note that this is a dirty hack, a fix from the developers is needed.

[sebastianbock17]

Dear @tigerjack, thank you a lot for the hint.

I realized there is an aur package: python-pathlib

After installing it (version python-pathlib-1.0.1-1), I installed zotero-cli from github following the instructions from the Readme.md, and now it finally works!!

So the solution is simply installing python-pathlib library :)

[tigerjack]

@yetipowers Glad it worked. For me, the pathlib package from AUR was not solving the problem.