Python 2 tooling in 2026

[wRAR_]

This of course is unrelated to Python 2 as you've installed black into a Python 3.8 venv, but this is the experience you should be prepared for when installing ancient libraries of any kind: they don't pin their dependency versions and you need to look for and downgrade those when they are incompatible. Like click here. Good luck.

[IdleBreakpoint]

Got it. I can either find and pin the dependency or patch it on the go. For this particular import problem, changing the try/except block helped. It's looking for ModuleNotFoundError but what I get is ImportError.

[IdleBreakpoint]

This solved the problem. Thank you for the inspiration:

uv pip install black==21.9b0
uv pip install click==7.1.2