On 1/2/21 6:35 AM, Bob van der Poel wrote: > Found it! Well done!
>> I had the proper urllib3 installed. But, in my .local/lib/ a previous >> version was installed. Removing .local/lib/python3.8 has resolved the >> problem. >> >> Anyone hazard a guess as to why I had a .local tree (nope, I did >> not create >> it ... I don't think!). >> > > That is where "python3.8 -m pip install --user" puts the packages > you install. > > Barry > > > > Okay ... I'll take your word for it. But, I really don't think I've > every run that command :) Assuming Python is maintained only at the system-level (cf --user or venv) then it may be possible that installing some application that runs 'on' Python added the local-library (as a "dependency"). Alternately, many beginners following installation instructions on a paint-by-numbers basis, may type/copy-paste commands without retaining any memory of same. [observation, not personal criticism] Python has been designed to offer flexibility. One of which is the ability to have multiple, co-resident, versions of Python and/or libraries. Of course, this also produces exactly the type of 'gotcha' illustrated (detected, and solved) here. Someone more familiar with Python-packaging may improve/correct... On a thematically-related, but OT-note: I decided to install a 'fresh' version of Fedora 33 on this machine, rather than performing a version-update. (required one hour from start-to-finish - try that MS-Win users!) The Python-relevance was to ensure there was no legacy-Python2 left 'lying-around'. However, the GIMP (popular graphics package) still uses (and has some sort of 'exemption' to use) Python2. Stymied! Not quite - there's a Flatpak option - which will enable my Python3-only objective by ring-fencing the GIMP and its dependencies. However... now I have a system package manager (dnf (~apt)) installing most system-software and 'other stuff' under a different method (I took the same approach with the Chromium browser) - how long will it be before such 'cleverness' is forgotten/trips me up? -- Regards =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
