Issues about "AttributeError: module 'six.moves' has no attribute 'collections_abc'"

[kasumi515]

I encountered this error message when I was trying to use google analytics API in python

AttributeError: module 'six.moves' has no attribute 'collections_abc'

Here is my python code:

from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
from apiclient.discovery import build
import httplib2

credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('client_secrets.json', ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'])

http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
service = build('analytics', 'v4', http=http, discoveryServiceUrl=('https://analyticsreporting.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest'))

I noticed that someone might have filed the same issue couple days ago, but I still ran into this issue.
Here is the version info of google-api-python-client:

google-api-python-client-1.12.1 (by pip show google-api-python-client)
google-api-core-1.22.2
google-api-python-client-1.12.1
google-auth-1.21.2
google-auth-httplib2-0.0.4
httplib2-0.18.1
six-1.15.0

I am wondering if there is any revision I need to do to fix this issue?
Thank you in advance.

[busunkim96]

collections was added to six in 1.13.0, so if you are using 1.1.50 it should be available. https://github.com/benjaminp/six/blob/c0be8815d13df45b6ae471c4c436cce8c192245d/CHANGES#L25-L36

Can you try in a new virtualenv?

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install ...
python3 -m name_of_script.py

In addition, oauth2client is no longer maintained so you should use google-auth.

from google.oauth2 import service_account

credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
    '/path/to/key.json')

scoped_credentials = credentials.with_scopes(
    ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'])

[kasumi515]

@busunkim96
Thank you so much for your reply!
I tried to install the packages in a new virtualenv and it worked!
Here is the code I used for others' reference:

from google.oauth2 import service_account
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
 
credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file('client_secrets.json')
scoped_credentials = credentials.with_scopes(['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'])

#Create a service object
service = build('analytics', 'v3', credentials=scoped_credentials)

[afaghm]

I still have this problem. Six is updated to 1.15.0 and google api client is updated to 1.12.2. I have also tried installing packages in a new environment but to no avail. Is anyone able to help please?

[keepcool13]

I get the same error, but I'm using the Earth Engine Python API. I need it for for a plugin in a third-party software, so I don't think I can use a virtual environment. I filed the error in the project of the plugin gee-community/qgis-earthengine-plugin#67 because I first thought the plugin is the issue. Because it only occurs if I start the plugin, not when I call the same function in a standard Python console. But when I looked closer I realized that the bug actually comes from here. But it is pretty strange that it only occurs if the plugin uses the API.

[busunkim96]

I've confirmed that setup.py is correctly requiring >=1.13.0. Please check where your version pins and bump to a sufficiently new version of six.

google-api-python-client/setup.py

Line 45 in 2d076b8

"six>=1.13.0,<2dev",