Python 3.2 won't import cookielib

Question

I have looked everywhere for this and just cannot find the answer. I have checked my python version and it is version 3.2 . When I try to import cookielib I receive:

ImportError: No module named cookielib

I have seen that in Python 3.0 it was renamed to http.cookiejar and that it would auto import cookielib.

I thought that maybe there was some wild error in my python configuration so I thought I should try and import http.cookiejar like this import http.cookiejar. That did not work all and I get and error:

EOFError: EOF read where not expected.

This is not the error I had expected becuase import http.cookies imports just fine.

Does anybody have a solution to this problem? What am I overlooking?

Full Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Spencer\Downloads\selenium-2.20.0.tar\selenium-2.20.0\selenium-2.20.0\test", line 1, in <module>
    import urllib.request, urllib.parse, http.cookiejar
EOFError: EOF read where not expected

Answer 1

The automatic renaming business only applies if you use 2to3. Therefore, you have to import http.cookiejar.

The error EOFError: EOF read where not expected is only ever thrown by Python marshalling. Most likely, this is caused by a race condition fixed in Python 3.3, where multiple processes tried to write concurrently to the pyc file. Deleting all .pyc files may be a workaround.

Answer 2

try:
    import cookielib
except:
    import http.cookiejar
    cookielib = http.cookiejar

Answer 3

The cookielib module has been renamed to http.cookiejar in Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to 3.0.