ImportError: No module named appengine.api

Question

I just updated app engine and when I run dev_appserver . in my project directory I get the following error.

MacBook-xx-xxx-xxx-xxxx vinay$ dev_appserver.py .
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/dev_appserver.py", line 84, in <module>
    _run_file(__file__, globals())
  File "/usr/local/bin/dev_appserver.py", line 80, in _run_file
    execfile(_PATHS.script_file(script_name), globals_)
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py", line 31, in <module>
    from google.appengine.api import appinfo
ImportError: No module named appengine.api

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UPDATE

Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 14 2015, 19:46:27) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin
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>>> import google
>>> print(google)
<module 'google' (built-in)>

Answer 1

My colleague had the same problem. He had an other google package installed, protobuf in his case.

If you try print(google.__path__), it will probably say something else than the google appengine path. Or try dir(google) to get some idea of what is actually imported.

To solve this, he had to remove protobuf.