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Python TwitterAPI issues... ImportError: cannot import name ReadTimeout

I'm running a code project I've downloaded from Github that uses the TwitterAPI.

I've followed the instructions in the README to install it with

pip TwitterAPI

but when I run the python script I'm getting an error that I can't seem to trouble shoot. Apologies... I'm a bit of a Python newb but it looks like requests is installed...

$ python main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
    from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/TwitterAPI/TwitterAPI.py", line 9, in <module>
    from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError, ReadTimeout, SSLError
ImportError: cannot import name ReadTimeout

It looks like there's two locations for python libs /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/lib/. I've syslinked the requests lib folder from /usr/lib/ into /usr/local/lib/ but this doesn't appear to have fixed the error.

$ ll /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
total 584K
drwxr-sr-x 4 root staff 4.0K Jan  5  2015 cffi-0.8.6-py2.7-linux-armv7l.egg
drwxr-sr-x 4 root staff 4.0K Jan  5  2015 cryptography-0.7.1-py2.7-linux-armv7l.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff  402 Jan  5  2015 easy-install.pth
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   77K Jan  5  2015 enum34-1.0.4-py2.7.egg
drwxr-sr-x 4 root staff 4.0K Dec 22 23:11 oauthlib
drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Dec 22 23:11 oauthlib-1.0.3.egg-info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78K Jan  5  2015 pyasn1-0.1.7-py2.7.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  194K Jan  5  2015 pycparser-2.10-py2.7.egg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 185K Jan  5  2015 pyOpenSSL-0.14-py2.7.egg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff   41 Dec 23 00:14 requests -> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff   56 Dec 23 00:14 requests-2.2.1.egg-info -> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.2.1.egg-info
drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4.0K Dec 22 23:52 requests_oauthlib
drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Dec 22 23:52 requests_oauthlib-0.6.0.dist-info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff   33 Jan  5  2015 setuptools.pth
drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Dec 22 23:52 TwitterAPI
drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Dec 22 23:52 TwitterAPI-2.3.6.egg-info
Solution

  • It appears you have multiple versions of the requests library installed, and one is a very old version:

    See solution here: https://github.com/geduldig/TwitterAPI/issues/46

    Take a look into both

    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

    and delete the requests folder that doesn't end in 2.9.1.

    Alternatively you can just delete all requests* folders in both locations, and reinstall requests again afterwards.