ImportError: cannot import name 'Group'

[emacsen]

I'm installing this module and trying to use it, but on any command such as makemigrations or migrate, I get:

(tmpchat) emacsen@thinkpad:~/tmp/tmpchat$ ./manage.py makemigrations Traceback (most recent call last): File "./manage.py", line 22, in execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/home/emacsen/.virtualenvs/tmpchat/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 363, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/home/emacsen/.virtualenvs/tmpchat/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 337, in execute django.setup() File "/home/emacsen/.virtualenvs/tmpchat/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/init.py", line 27, in setup apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS) File "/home/emacsen/.virtualenvs/tmpchat/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 108, in populate app_config.import_models() File "/home/emacsen/.virtualenvs/tmpchat/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 202, in import_models self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name) File "/home/emacsen/.virtualenvs/tmpchat/lib/python3.5/importlib/init.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 986, in _gcd_import File "", line 969, in _find_and_load File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 673, in _load_unlocked File "", line 665, in exec_module File "", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/home/emacsen/.virtualenvs/tmpchat/lib/python3.5/site-packages/channels_presence/models.py", line 12, in from channels import Group ImportError: cannot import name 'Group'

This is with Python 3.5 but I get the same error with 2.7. Also this is django 1.11.

Any help would be appreciated

[kaikuehne]

Hi, I just ran into the same problem. Make sure that you are not accidentally using the django-channels package, which is unrelated, but rather the channels package.

[emacsen]

This was indeed the problem. The issue on the github is that while the link is right, the dependecy is written as django-channels.

[ojhaManish10]

I have the same error. I have tried pip install channels but still there is ImportError: cannot import name Group error

[christiansoe]

Installing channel instead of django-channel worked for me!

[andrei-bandka]

Worked for me too!

[dawntcherian]

I am using channels==2.0.2 and getting the same error while trying to import Group.

[Cally99]

I have this problem too. Any solution yet? I'm only using channels not django-channels

[dawntcherian]

@Hey-tom : In channels 2, Group has been removed.

[rashards]

Little green to Django. What module should I be importing if Group has been deprecated from channels? I've looked up documentation, but nothing I've found clearly states what I should do to replace "from channels import Group." For example,

models.py

def group_notification(self, activity): Group('notifications').send({ 'text': json.dumps({ 'username': self.user.username, 'activity_type': 'notification', 'activity': activity }) {) replace with...

from channel.layers import get_channel_layer

def group_notification(self, activity): pass_info = json.dumps({ 'username': self.user.username, 'activity_type': 'notification', 'activity': activity}) await self.channel_layer.group_send("notification",pass_info)

I get an attribute error re: channel_layer

[alexalexyang]

Same problem. Using:

Python 3.6.2 channels==2.1.1 Django==2.0.4 django-channels-presence==0.0.9

Added as the doc says to:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "channels_presence",]

manage.py runserver produces:

  File "C:\ENV_CH~1\lib\site-packages\channels_presence\models.py", line 12, in <module>
    from channels import Group
ImportError: cannot import name 'Group'

Am I missing something?

[dawntcherian]

@alexalexyang Group has been deprecated in channels 2.