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jfinkels

opened on Oct 20, 2016

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The imp package is pending deprecation in favor of importlib as of Python 3.4.

$ python3.5 -Wonce -c "import future.standard_library"
[...]/lib/python3.5/site.py:165: DeprecationWarning: 'U' mode is deprecated
  f = open(fullname, "rU")
[...]/lib/python3.5/site-packages/future/standard_library/__init__.py:66: PendingDeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp

The recommended alternative is described here.

Reacted by Jon Dufresne and yonran

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1. skoranda

   added a commit that references this issue on Dec 4, 2018

   Suppress a warning due to python-future

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2. jmadler

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   on May 6, 2019
3. gGonz commented on Feb 15, 2020

   

   gGonz

   on Feb 15, 2020

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   Any hope to get this fixed? Still happening after 3 years.

   Reacted by Ferdinand Schlatt

   Reacted by Ferdinand Schlatt and Dooley_labs
4. elderlabs commented on Nov 21, 2021

   

   elderlabs

   on Nov 21, 2021

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   Assuming no one has plans to fix this? Currently tracking the source of a DeprecationWarning and found this along the way.

   Editing in an idea here, but what's the potential cost of importing imp in conditions requiring Python2 only, with a workaround for situations requiring it in Python3? Python 3.12 will drop all support for imp. Given there are several libraries in the wild that actively depend on python-future for the sole purpose of maintaining Py2 support, I'd like to find a fix in as efficient a manner as possible.

   I'd work out a solution myself, but I'm not working with python-future directly, but rather as a dependency of python-whois. Working out a solution on my own risks breaking something, as I'm not using python-future directly. Thanks.
5. elderlabs commented on Mar 31, 2023

   

   elderlabs

   on Mar 31, 2023

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   Greetings again from the future. We're now in the days of Python 3.11, with Python 3.12's release looming ever closer. There is an open PR (#574) from 2019 to close this issue.

   Is python-future dead? Once Python 3.12 releases, this project will be left in a forever broken state if not updated.
   Please merge the pending PR.

   EDIT 2: Updating my previous edit, it would seem the imp module deprecation is still present in 0.18.3. Will this ever be fixed?
6. hugovk commented on May 11, 2023

   

   hugovk

   on May 11, 2023

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   The imp module has now been removed from Python 3.12.

   • Remove more deprecated importlib APIs from Python 3.12 python/cpython#98040
   • gh-98040: Remove just the imp module python/cpython#98573

   Python 3.12 will be in beta in two weeks, and set for release on 2023-10-02 and this library is one of the top 5,000 most-downloaded from PyPI.

   Please could you upgrade to use importlib? The imp docs have suggestions on what to use to replace each function and constant.

   Reacted by Dooley_labs
7. yonran commented on Oct 11, 2023

   

   yonran

   on Oct 11, 2023

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   For people googling, in python 3.12, importing future.standard_library raises “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'”:

   ImportError: Failed to import test module: myfile
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     …
     File "myfile.py", line 41, in <module>
       from future import standard_library
     File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.0/x64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/future/standard_library/__init__.py", line 65, in <module>
       import imp
   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'
   

   In my case, I resolved the error by replacing those imports that need future.standard_library.install_aliases() with six instead (see imports2):

   • urllib.parse --> six.moves.urllib.parse
   • urllib.error --> six.moves.urllib.error
   • urllib.parse -->six.moves.urllib.parse
   • dbm.ndbm --> six.moves. dbm_ndbm
   • http.server --> six.BaseHTTPServer, six.CGIHTTPServer, or six.SimpleHTTPServer
   • tkinter.filedialog --> six.tkinter_tkfiledialog
   • tkinter.simpledialog --> six.tkinter_simpledialog
   • xmlrpc.server --> six.xmlrpc_server

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