“ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found” when using any hg mercurial commands

Question

When trying to use any hg Mercurial commands on the console, I keep getting this error. I installed Python using Homebrew and I am running Mac OS Catalina v. 1

Answer 1

On macOS Mojave (10.14.6), this worked for me:

• Save the file as python@2.rb in your current directory.
• brew reinstall python@2.rb
• I was using virtual environments, so I had to link them back to /usr/local/bin/python and /usr/local/bin/pip for python and pip binaries.