Funny error message

[Bob van der Poel]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 9:25 PM DL Neil via Python-list <
python-list at python.org> wrote:

> On 1/1/21 11:46 AM, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> > When I run python from the command line and generate an error I get the
> > following:
> >
> > Python 3.8.5 (default, Jul 28 2020, 12:59:40)
> > [GCC 9.3.0] on linux
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>> z
> > /home/bob/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/__init__.py:89:
> > RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.24.3) or chardet (4.0.0) doesn't
> > match a supported version!
> >   warnings.warn("urllib3 ({}) or chardet ({}) doesn't match a supported "
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > NameError: name 'z' is not defined
> >
> > I understand "z in not defined" ... but what's with the warnings?
>
>
> The implication is that there is a version-mismatch between Python 3.8
> and whichever urllib3 and chardet libraries currently installed.
>
> Recommend updating the system, container, or venv: either Python, pip3
> of the two and/or requests or html-parser [as appropriate to the
> installed libraries - see below], or both/all.
>
>
> System here runs as-expected:
>
> dn $ ... python
> Python 3.9.1 (default, Dec  8 2020, 00:00:00)
> [GCC 10.2.1 20201125 (Red Hat 10.2.1-9)] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> z
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'z' is not defined
> >>> import chardet
> >>> import urllib3
> >>> exit()
> dn $ ... pip show chardet urllib3
> Name: chardet
> Version: 3.0.4
> Summary: Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3
> Home-page: https://github.com/chardet/chardet
> Author: Mark Pilgrim
> Author-email: mark at diveintomark.org
> License: LGPL
> Location: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages
> Requires:
> Required-by: html5-parser, requests
> ---
> Name: urllib3
> Version: 1.25.8
> Summary: HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post,
> and more.
> Home-page: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/
> Author: Andrey Petrov
> Author-email: andrey.petrov at shazow.net
> License: MIT
> Location: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages
> Requires:
> Required-by: requests
>
>
Found it!

I had the proper urllib3 installed. But, in my .local/lib/ a previous
version was installed. Removing .local/lib/python3.8 has resolved the
problem.

Anyone hazard a guess as to why I had a .local tree (nope, I did not create
it ... I don't think!).


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