ImportError: No module named moves

Question

Versions

• Python : 2.7.14
• six : 1.9.0 & 1.11.0(tried on both)
• OS : mac(10.13.3) & ubuntu(16.04) [tried on both]

Error

from six.moves import http_client
ImportError: No module named moves

Description

In flask application which is running on google app engine while running it on local system using dev_appserver.py getting above error while importing from six.moves import http_client

What I have tried

After importing six have tried dir(six) which shows that moves is there in list but it's not able to import it which is very strange.

Output of six.__version__: 1.11.0

Output if dir(six)

['/opt/tribes-backend', '/opt/tribes-backend/lib1', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/ssl-2.7.11', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/grpcio-1.0.0', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/six-1.9.0', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/protobuf-3.0.0', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/enum-0.9.23', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/futures-3.0.5', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/setuptools-36.6.0', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/protorpc-1.0', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/pytz-2017.2', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/webapp2-2.3', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/webob-1.1.1', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/werkzeug-0.11.10', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/yaml-3.10', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/enum', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib/concurrent/concurrent', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/concurrent', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/google', '/usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/google'] ['BytesIO', 'Iterator', 'MAXSIZE', 'Module_six_moves_urllib', 'Module_six_moves_urllib_error', 'Module_six_moves_urllib_parse', 'Module_six_moves_urllib_request', 'Module_six_moves_urllib_response', 'Module_six_moves_urllib_robotparser', 'MovedAttribute', 'MovedModule', 'PY2', 'PY3', 'StringIO', '_LazyDescr', '_LazyModule', '_MovedItems', '_SixMetaPathImporter', 'author', 'builtins', 'doc', 'file', 'name', 'package', 'path', 'version', '_add_doc', '_assertCountEqual', '_assertRaisesRegex', '_assertRegex', '_func_closure', '_func_code', '_func_defaults', '_func_globals', '_import_module', '_importer', '_meth_func', '_meth_self', '_moved_attributes', '_print', '_urllib_error_moved_attributes', '_urllib_parse_moved_attributes', '_urllib_request_moved_attributes', '_urllib_response_moved_attributes', '_urllib_robotparser_moved_attributes', 'absolute_import', 'add_metaclass', 'add_move', 'advance_iterator', 'assertCountEqual', 'assertRaisesRegex', 'assertRegex', 'b', 'binary_type', 'byte2int', 'callable', 'class_types', 'create_bound_method', 'exec_', 'functools', 'get_function_closure', 'get_function_code', 'get_function_defaults', 'get_function_globals', 'get_method_function', 'get_method_self', 'get_unbound_function', 'indexbytes', 'int2byte', 'integer_types', 'iterbytes', 'iteritems', 'iterkeys', 'iterlists', 'itertools', 'itervalues', 'moves', 'next', 'operator', 'print_', 'python_2_unicode_compatible', 'raise_from', 'remove_move', 'reraise', 'string_types', 'sys', 'text_type', 'types', 'u', 'unichr', 'viewitems', 'viewkeys', 'viewvalues', 'with_metaclass', 'wraps'].

As it can be seen from above output moves inside six still giving error while importing it.

Spent a lot of time on this and no solution till now any help would be greatly appreciated here. :(

UPDATE1

Error stacktrace :-

 from google.cloud.datastore import helpers
 File "/opt/tribes-backend/denv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/cloud/datastore/helpers.py", line 27, in <module>
 from google.cloud._helpers import _datetime_to_pb_timestamp
 File "/opt/tribes-backend/denv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/cloud/_helpers.py", line 30, in <module>
 from six.moves import http_client
 ImportError: No module named moves

Answer 1

For me the issue was resolved by following it on https://github.com/googleapis/python-ndb/issues/249

andrewsg commented 11 days ago:

I think we've identified an issue with devappserver related to the six library specifically. Could you please try a workaround? Add the line: import six; reload(six) to the top of your app, before NDB is loaded and let me know if that works.