Attribute Error trying to run Gmail API quickstart in Python

Question

It looks like there might be a version mismatch problem here. How should I go about fixing it?

I've trying updating six with pip, but that doesn't do anything.

Here's the error I see:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./quickstart.py", line 27, in <module>
    credentials = run(flow, STORAGE, http=http)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 137, in positional_wrapper
    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/old_run.py", line 120, in run
    authorize_url = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 137, in positional_wrapper
    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/client.py", line 1827, in step1_get_authorize_url
    return _update_query_params(self.auth_uri, query_params)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/client.py", line 435, in _update_query_params
    parts = urllib.parse.urlparse(uri)
AttributeError: 'Module_six_moves_urllib_parse' object has no attribute 'urlparse'

Answer 1

I ran into a very similar problem, albeit using a completely different API (compute engine). I ended up rolling back the google api client to the previous version - 1.3.2 - as opposed to the latest - 1.4.0. To do this, I ran:

sudo pip install -I google-api-python-client==1.3.2

And was then able to run my code.

I'm not sure if this is the same problem, but it seems to have done the trick for me, hope this helps.