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Fix Error – ImportError: No module named packages.urllib3.exceptions

Recently when I was creating Python automation script I faced this weird error. This literally wasted my couple of days and needless to mentioned frustration it caused.

Below is the error message which I was getting

*
fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": true
 "cmd": "python CreateFileSystem.py i-06a848f20bafd0475 10G"
 "delta": "0:00:00.077332"
 "end": "2019-11-21 06:58:53.018383"
 "msg": "non-zero return code"
 "rc": 1
 "start": "2019-11-21 06:58:52.941051"
 "stderr": "CreateFileSystem.py:49: SyntaxWarning: name 'unity_headers' is used prior to global declaration\n  global unity_headers\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"CreateFileSystem.py\"
 line 5
 in <module>\n    from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning\nImportError: No module named packages.urllib3.exceptions"
 "stderr_lines": ["CreateFileSystem.py:49: SyntaxWarning: name 'unity_headers' is used prior to global declaration"
 "  global unity_headers"
 "Traceback (most recent call last):"
 "  File \"CreateFileSystem.py\"
 line 5
 in <module>"
 "    from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning"
 "ImportError: No module named packages.urllib3.exceptions"]
 "stdout": ""
 "stdout_lines": []}

As you can see from the error it keeps saying that there’s error importing “urllib3” package. But This was already installed in the system

For resolving this I had to follow below steps.

  • Uninstall below packages
    • python-devel
    • libevent-devel
    • openssl-devel
    • libffi-devel
    • Requests (pip)
    • urllib3 (pip)
  • Install below packages
    • python-devel
    • libevent-devel
    • openssl-devel
    • libffi-devel
  • Run below command
pip install requests urllib3

These steps resolved the issue I was facing.

Also, DO NOT install pip packges (requests and urllib3) individually, run them as single command. This makes sure that required pip dependencies are also auto installed. Strangely I haven’t seen dependencies getting installed when you install them one by one.

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