ImportError: no module named mac

[larryy]

After cloning the directory, entering it, and typing 'pip install .' I got what seemed to be a successful build and install, ending in:

Successfully built Send2Trash
Installing collected packages: Send2Trash
Successfully installed Send2Trash-1.8.1b0

But when I try to run my Python 2.7 script I get an error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/larryy/Dropbox/src/file_rename.py", line 8, in <module>
    from send2trash import send2trash
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/send2trash/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    from .mac import send2trash
ImportError: No module named mac

As shown, the line of code in question is a standard import:

from send2trash import send2trash

This is macOS Monterey 12.4 (latest) and the latest Send2Trash (1.8.1b0). Apologies if I've just done something stupid setting things up.

[arsenetar]

Likely an issue related to d37197c although there should not be issues... I recommend trying the 1.8.1b0 tag instead of the master branch. to see if that resolves the issue.

[arsenetar]

This should be good now, I needed to update the setup.cfg.

[larryy]

After a pull and install (again a successful build, that despite using what I think is the master branch, bills itself as 1.8.1b0), I do not see the previous problem, but now get this one: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/larryy/Dropbox/src/file_rename.py", line 8, in <module> from send2trash import send2trash File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/send2trash/__init__.py", line 12, in <module> from send2trash.mac import send2trash File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/send2trash/mac/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> from send2trash.mac.legacy import send2trash # noqa: F401 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/send2trash/mac/legacy.py", line 18, in <module> GetMacOSStatusCommentString = Foundation.GetMacOSStatusCommentString File ***@***.***/2.7.17/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 379, in __getattr__ func = self.__getitem__(name) File ***@***.***/2.7.17/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 384, in __getitem__ func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self)) AttributeError: dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, GetMacOSStatusCommentString): symbol not found

[arsenetar]

Yeah, I think you are running into a previous issue #51 that has a fix for newer python versions. This issue is due to a change in newer macOS versions.
Options really are to either use python 3.6+, in which the newer implementation will be used here and avoid that issue. Alternatively, I have noticed that it is possible to "fix" this issue in python by installing a newer version of python3 for macOS via the installers at https://www.python.org/downloads/macos/ as they include an option that seems to fix this issue across all python versions.

[larryy]

I'm sorry to report that "fix" doesn't help. I installed the latest stable releases for both Python 3 (3.9.13) and Python 2 (2.7.18), reinstalled send2trash, and am getting the same error. The only customizable options were certain packages, which were all on by default and I left them on, and the install location, which I left at the default. I confirmed that Python 2 was updated from 2.7.17 to 2.7.18. I don't know what version Python 3 was at before this install, but it is now at 3.9.13. I don't think it's meaningful, but I noticed a complaint from the send2trash install about the target site-packages not being in my PATH, and sure enough I still had an old /System/Library path instead of the current /Library path. But fixing this seems to have changed nothing except that paths reported in the error message are now the Framework paths rather than the /usr/local/lib paths. The files being pointed to are the same files, just reachable by these two different paths due to symbolic linking. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/larryy/Dropbox/src/file_rename.py", line 8, in <module> from send2trash import send2trash File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/send2trash/__init__.py", line 12, in <module> from send2trash.mac import send2trash File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/send2trash/mac/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> from send2trash.mac.legacy import send2trash # noqa: F401 File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/send2trash/mac/legacy.py", line 18, in <module> GetMacOSStatusCommentString = Foundation.GetMacOSStatusCommentString File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 379, in __getattr__ func = self.__getitem__(name) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 384, in __getitem__ func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self)) AttributeError: dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, GetMacOSStatusCommentString): symbol not found

[arsenetar]

Yeah, I don't really have anything else then, installing python 3.9.2 back when I was first troubleshooting the symbol not found issue somehow "fixed" the system pythons on my development mac which no longer has this issue to date with any of the three python versions present. I would encourage using a newer version of python if you can.