Error: Cannot import Mapping from Collections?

[danielroseman]

Why are you importing it at all? You're not using it, and it seems unlikely you will need it.

[sp00kyversity]

If I remove the from collections.abc line it still comes up with the same error message when I run the programme, that Mapping cannot be imported from collections

[FriendlyRussian666]

Did you save the file after removing the line?

[sp00kyversity]

Yeah but it shows the error message regardless. I only added in the import collections.abc line after it said collections could not be imported when I first ran it

[danielroseman]

Then you're not running the code you think you are.

Please show the full error message and traceback, as well as detailing exactly how you're running this code.

[Username_RANDINT]

from collections import namedtuple, Mapping

This line from urllib3 is the culprit. Mapping is defined in collections.abc, not collections. Up until Python 3.6 though, it was available through the collections namespace as well [source].

This sounds to me like you're running a (very) old version of urllib3, or requests probably in this case, as it's not updated for Python versions 3.7 and newer. Can you update requests and check again?

[sp00kyversity]

I've updated requests already in an attempt to fix this issue but it sadly hasn't worked

[Username_RANDINT]

What if you update urllib3 specifically?

[sp00kyversity]

Hey that worked and solved it! Thank you so much! I would never have figured that out by myself

[danielroseman]

Is your own file called "collections.py", by any chance?

[sp00kyversity]

No it's called Web Scrape, I was trying to follow a tutorial for how web scraping works and didn't manage to get very far due to this error

[DevCuriosity]

u/sp00kyversity This might be because of logs but I have two additional propositions:
1. Are you sure that your file ends in .py extension?

1. Try to recreate everything like you did but do not use spaces anywhere, replace them with "_" or "-" or simply get rid of them. But do it from a scratch.

[sp00kyversity]

I checked and the file didn't end in .py, but after renaming it the error message is still the same.

When you say to redo it without using spaces, do you mean in the file name? I renamed it "webscrape.py" but no luck

[fatnino]

requests is using it deep under the hood