python 2.7: no module named configparser

Question

I'm trying to run db_create.py in Flask, and am getting the following error:

from six.moves.configparser import ConfigParser
ImportError: No module named configparser

Even after a successfull pip install, the same error code comes up.

I'm seeing solutions targeting Python 3, but not lower.

Answer 1

For anyone following along, this was likely caused by an old (broken) version of the six module, e.g. see https://github.com/Parsely/streamparse/issues/113, for instance

which caused six.moves to be almost empty (contained no configparser module)

The fix was to upgrade the version of six used.