ImportError: cannot import name api - Error Configuring aws_cli on centos 7

Question

I successfully installed aws using pip install awscli --upgrade --user. However, when I'm trying to aws configure or aws --version, I'm getting following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/aws", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('aws==0.2.5', 'console_scripts', 'aws')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 378, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2566, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2260, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/aws/main.py", line 7, in <module>
    from fabric import api as fab
ImportError: cannot import name api

My System details are as follows

Python 2.7.5
pip 18.0 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)
Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64
Architecture: x86-64

Path Variable is set to /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1@global/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib:/opt/gradle/gradle-4.7/bin:/usr/local/rvm/bin:/root/bin

Answer 1

The aws package in PyPI is not AWS's official CLI client but rather an older unmaintained library that used to interface with AWS and is now broken. AWS's official CLI client is awscli. Therefore if you pip install aws instead of pip install awscli you will run into the issue above.

The solution is to first run pip uninstall aws then run pip install awscli.

Answer 2

Error with import if fabric submodules. Commented from fabric import .. statements and added import fabric. Not sure, if this is originally an issue but, resolved my problem. Please refer my comment on my question.