Installing Python Package abc

Question

I am trying to run someone's code and I hitting an issue with their imports

from abc import ABC, abstractmethod

I tried doing a pip install abc but that did not find any package named abc.

Has anyone used this package before? If so, was abc the correct package name to install? If not, what is the correct package name? Using Python 2.7.13

Answer 1

Go to https://pypi.org/search/?q=abc

This queries all official registered python packages. It seems there a package abc which is orphened.

If someone else from your company or community wrote a package abc, there are two ways. Either yoy create a local repository and add abc there. or you install the package manually by creating a wheel file and install it with pip install

Answer 2

For the record, I was able to search pypi and find a package that worked. I installed abcplus pip install abcplus and that allowed me to execute the import statement.