Python 3.12 fails to import pyquery with "ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' from 'lxml' "

[edcarstens]

Python 3.12 fails to import pyquery. The specific problem reported is:

ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' from 'lxml'

Here is the full error message I get when trying to run a simple test script that imports from requests_html:

$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\edcar\OneDrive\Documents\voterRolls\test.py", line 7, in
from requests_html import HTMLSession
File "C:\users\edcar\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\requests_html.py", line 11, in
from pyquery import PyQuery
File "C:\python312\lib\site-packages\pyquery_init_.py", line 5, in
from .pyquery import PyQuery # NOQA
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\python312\lib\site-packages\pyquery\pyquery.py", line 12, in
from lxml import etree
ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' from 'lxml' (C:\python312\lib\site-packages\lxml_init_.py)

[gawel]

tests are green https://github.com/gawel/pyquery/actions/runs/8529082816/job/23364099065

[edcarstens]

My guess is it is a backwards compatibility issue with lxml. If so, you simply have to change the lxml version to whatever version works correctly. The python installer I use is pip. To reproduce it run 'pip install pyquery' and then try importing it in a test script.

$ pip install pyquery
Collecting pyquery
Obtaining dependency information for pyquery from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/36/b7/f7ccf9e52e2817e1265d3719c600fa4ef33c0
7de4d5ef0ced3f43ab1cef2/pyquery-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata
Using cached pyquery-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.0 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: lxml>=2.1 in c:\python312\lib\site-packages (from pyquery) (5.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: cssselect>=1.2.0 in c:\python312\lib\site-packages (from pyquery) (1.2.0)
Using cached pyquery-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (22 kB)
Installing collected packages: pyquery
Successfully installed pyquery-2.0.0

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 23.2.1 -> 24.0
[notice] To update, run: C:\Python312\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

DESKTOP-T28NKOE ~/OneDrive/Documents/voterRolls
$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\edcar\OneDrive\Documents\voterRolls\test.py", line 7, in
from requests_html import HTMLSession
File "C:\users\edcar\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\requests_html.py", line 11, in
from pyquery import PyQuery
File "C:\python312\lib\site-packages\pyquery_init_.py", line 5, in
from .pyquery import PyQuery # NOQA
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\python312\lib\site-packages\pyquery\pyquery.py", line 12, in
from lxml import etree
ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' from 'lxml' (C:\python312\lib\site-packages\lxml_init_.py)

[gawel]

The test install lxml==5.2.1 which il the latest. So I don't really get your point

Try a script with "from lxml import etree" and I guess you'll have the same problem. Seems like this has nothing to do with pyquery