Breaking change for google-api-python-client 1.8.1 - AttributeError: module 'googleapiclient' has no attribute '__version__'

Question

After upgrading to the new google-api-python-client 1.8.1 I'm receiving this error. Do we know if python 3.8 breaks the latest google-api-core? And whether there's a solution

 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 583, in spawn_worker
     worker.init_process()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 129, in init_process
     self.load_wsgi()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 138, in load_wsgi
     self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 67, in wsgi
     self.callable = self.load()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 52, in load
     return self.load_wsgiapp()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 41, in load_wsgiapp
     return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 350, in import_app
     __import__(module)
   File "/prosebit/prosebit/app.py", line 10, in <module>
     from prosebit.blueprints.page import page
   File "/prosebit/prosebit/blueprints/page/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
     from prosebit.blueprints.page.views import page
   File "/prosebit/prosebit/blueprints/page/views.py", line 4, in <module>
     from prosebit.blueprints.page.gmail import get_google_auth, ListHistory, add_to_watch, 
     is_meter_data, ListMessagesMatchingQuery, GetMessage, send_message, get_daily_threadid, 
     ModifyMessage, create
     MsgLabels, get_new_messages
  File "/prosebit/prosebit/blueprints/page/gmail.py", line 32, in <module>
     from apiclient import errors
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/apiclient/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
     __version__ = googleapiclient.__version__
 AttributeError: module 'googleapiclient' has no attribute '__version__'

Here are my dependencies:

Successfully installed Blinker-1.4 Click-6.4 Flask-1.1.1 Flask-Login-0.4.1 Flask-Mail-0.9.1 Flask-
SQLAlchemy-2.4.1 Flask-WTF-0.14.3 Jinja2-2.11.2 MarkupSafe-1.1.1 SQLAlchemy-1.3.7 SQLAlchemy-Utils-0.36.3 WTForms-2.
2.1 WTForms-Alchemy-0.16.9 WTForms-Components-0.10.4 amqp-2.5.2 atomicwrites-1.3.0 attrs-19.3.0 billiard-3.6.3.0 cachetools-4.1.0 celery-4.4.0 certifi-2020.4.5.1 chardet-3.0.4 coverage-5.1 decorator-4.4.2 entrypoin
ts-0.3 faker-3.0.0 flake8-3.7.8 flask-debugtoolbar-0.10.1 gocardless-pro-1.10.0 google-api-core-1.16.0 google-api-python-client-1.8.1 google-auth-1.14.0 google-auth-httplib2-0.0.3 google-auth-oauthlib-0.4.1 google-
cloud-pubsub-1.4.3 googleapis-common-protos-1.51.0 grpc-google-iam-v1-0.12.3 grpcio-1.28.1 gunicorn-19.9.0 httplib2-0.17.2 idna-2.9 infinity-1.4 intervals-0.8.1 itsdangerous-1.1.0 kombu-4.6.8 mccabe-0.6.1 mock-3.0.
5 more-itertools-8.2.0 oauth2client-4.1.3 oauthlib-3.1.0 packaging-20.3 pluggy-0.13.1 protobuf-3.11.3 psycopg2-2.8.4 py-1.8.1 pyasn1-0.4.8 pyasn1-modules-0.2.8 pycodestyle-2.5.0 pyflakes-2.1.1 pyparsing-2.4.7 pytes
t-5.1.0 pytest-cov-2.7.1 python-dateutil-2.8.1 pytz-2019.3 redis-3.3.11 requests-2.23.0 requests-oauthlib-1.3.0 rsa-4.0 six-1.14.0 stripe-2.41.0 text-unidecode-1.3 uritemplate-3.0.1 urllib3-1.25.9 validators-0.14.3
 vine-1.3.0 wcwidth-0.1.9 werkzeug-1.0.0

Answer 1

I had the same error and changing the import fixed it for me. The developers recommend importing from googleapiclient instead of apiclient.

So you will need to change from apiclient import errors to from googleapiclient import errors