ImportError: cannot import name request

[Christian Fenzl]

Hi, sorry if this question is misplaced, or basic python. I've implemented an JsonRpcAPI server (in PHP) for our software, and I'm not familiar with Python yet, and only tried to test the API ;-)

I've tried to install and run the sample, but stuck with `cannot import name request'.

root@loxberry-dev:/tmp# pip install "jsonrpcclient[requests]"
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Requirement already satisfied: jsonrpcclient[requests] in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (2.6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: future==0.16.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from jsonrpcclient[requests]) (0.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: click==6.7 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from jsonrpcclient[requests]) (6.7)
Requirement already satisfied: jsonschema==2.6.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from jsonrpcclient[requests]) (2.6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: requests; extra == "requests" in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from jsonrpcclient[requests]) (2.22.0)
Requirement already satisfied: functools32; python_version == "2.7" in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from jsonschema==2.6.0->jsonrpcclient[requests]) (3.2.3.post2)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.9,>=2.5 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from requests; extra == "requests"->jsonrpcclient[requests]) (2.8)
Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from requests; extra == "requests"->jsonrpcclient[requests]) (3.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from requests; extra == "requests"->jsonrpcclient[requests]) (2019.6.16)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from requests; extra == "requests"->jsonrpcclient[requests]) (1.25.3)

root@loxberry-dev:/tmp# python3 jsonrpcclient.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "jsonrpcclient.py", line 1, in <module>
    from jsonrpcclient import request
  File "/tmp/jsonrpcclient.py", line 1, in <module>
    from jsonrpcclient import request
ImportError: cannot import name 'request' from 'jsonrpcclient' (/tmp/jsonrpcclient.py)

root@loxberry-dev:/tmp# python2 jsonrpcclient.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "jsonrpcclient.py", line 1, in <module>
    from jsonrpcclient import request
  File "/tmp/jsonrpcclient.py", line 1, in <module>
    from jsonrpcclient import request
ImportError: cannot import name request

It's Raspberry Pi 2 with Debian/Raspbian 10 Buster and

• Python 2.7.16
• Python 3.7.3
• pip 19.2 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip (python 2.7)

Do you have a solution, or a link with instructions, to repair this?

Thanks a lot!
Christian

[Beau]

Your jsonrpcclient.py is clashing with the jsonrpcclient package. Rename it to something else.