PIP (Python) : ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref
I am getting below error, I have search lot around but haven't been able to find a good fix- Please anyone who was getting this kind of error and resolved. please help.
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:\python27\Tools\Scripts\pip.exe\__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
import logging
File "c:\python27\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
import sys, os, time, cStringIO, traceback, warnings, weakref, collections
File "c:\python27\lib\weakref.py", line 14, in <module>
from _weakref import (
ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref
Answer
I have encountered the similar issue on my macOS X when I run lldb from the terminal. The error message is the following,
16:55 $ lldb
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.14_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/copy.py", line 52, in <module>
import weakref
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.14_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/weakref.py", line 14, in <module>
from _weakref import (
ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref
The error message is quite similar with yours. This is what I solved on my macOS X.
$ brew list
...<many libraries>
python@ <The one has conflicted with my python3.6>
$ brew remove python@2 --ignore-dependencies
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.14_3... (4,662 files, 82.8MB)
I think the problem is caused by the system installed python, which conflicts with personally installed python. After I removed my python2.7 and lldb works well. I hope it will give you some idea, although we are running on a different OS.
To manage different version of python, I recommend you to install pyenv,
see here. It can easily switch the different versions of your python.