I just installed Python 3.6.1 for MacOS X
When I attempt to run the Console(or run anything with Python3), this error is thrown:
AttributeError: module 'enum' has no attribute 'IntFlag'
$ /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/python3
Failed to import the site module
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site.py", line 544, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site.py", line 530, in main
known_paths = addusersitepackages(known_paths)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site.py", line 282, in addusersitepackages
user_site = getusersitepackages()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site.py", line 258, in getusersitepackages
user_base = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site.py", line 248, in getuserbase
USER_BASE = get_config_var('userbase')
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/sysconfig.py", line 601, in get_config_var
return get_config_vars().get(name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/sysconfig.py", line 580, in get_config_vars
import _osx_support
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/_osx_support.py", line 4, in <module>
import re
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/re.py", line 142, in <module>
class RegexFlag(enum.IntFlag):
AttributeError: module 'enum' has no attribute 'IntFlag'
The class IntFlag exists within enum.py. So, why is the AttributeError being thrown?
It's because your enum
is not the standard library enum
module. You probably have the package enum34
installed.
One way check if this is the case is to inspect the property enum.__file__
import enum
print(enum.__file__)
# standard library location should be something like
# /usr/local/lib/python3.6/enum.py
Since python 3.6 the enum34 library is no longer compatible with the standard library. The library is also unnecessary, so you can simply uninstall it.
pip uninstall -y enum34
If you need the code to run on python versions both <=3.4 and >3.4, you can try having enum-compat
as a requirement. It only installs enum34
for older versions of python without the standard library enum.