cannot import name 'Validator' from 'validate' | arch community/terminator 2.1.0-2

[DO1JLR]

Hello together

After I just updated my Archlinux, terminator (community/terminator 2.1.0-2) stopped working and spit out the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 48, in <module>
    import terminatorlib.optionparse
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/terminatorlib/optionparse.py", line 24, in <module>
    from . import config
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/terminatorlib/config.py", line 77, in <module>
    from validate import Validator
ImportError: cannot import name 'Validator' from 'validate' (/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/validate/__init__.py)

Something similar happened to me before and I solved it locally with the fix from #325

Now I took a closer look and found out that the following line causes the problem for me. For your information: I have installed Python 3.9.1 and updated arch to the current state via the standard arch package sources.

terminator/terminatorlib/config.py

Line 77 in 23a15ea

from validate import Validator

based on the README at https://pypi.org/project/validator/ I changed line 77 locally to from validator import validate and since then terminator works clean again.

It seems strange to me that such an error has not been noticed and I could imagine that this is a local or archlinux specific problem. Nevertheless I wanted to inform you about it.

If you like I can also submit this as a pull request similar to #325.

Stay healthy! And thanks for terminator. I like to use it very much. 😘

[mattrose]

This was a problem caused by the packaging of one version of the python-configobj package in Arch Linux, specifically in version 5.0.6-10. Both the previous version (5.0.6-9), and the subsequent version (5.0.6.r110.g3e2f4cc-1) do not have this problem. Please make sure you're not running 5.0.6-10 of the arch package.