No module named 'importlib.metadata'

Question

I'm trying to install Odoo 15.0 on mac (python 3.7) when i come to run the command:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

I got this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/pip3", line 10, in <module>
from importlib.metadata import distribution
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'importlib.metadata'

Answer 1

Try installing this lib manually, using :

pip install importlib-metadata

or

pip3 install importlib-metadata

Answer 2

Note that while the accepted answer was relevant for the specific version of Python used in the question (3.7 or older), and asked at the moment of asking, now it has become obsolete, because Python 3.7 has since reached its end-of-life.

Since Python 3.8 the importib-metadata third-party library has been merged into CPython and became its importlib.metadata module, so it is now possible to use it like this:

from importlib.metadata import distribution,metadata,version