UserWarning: Could not import the lzma module. Your installed Python is incomplete

Question

After Installing Google Cloud Bigquery Module, if I import the module into python code. I see this warning message. Happening to me in python 3.7.3 Virtualenv.

Tried

Answer 1

On MacOS and pyenv (https://realpython.com/intro-to-pyenv/), I was able to have this warning go away by having xz installed with homebrew. Using version python 3.6.9 as an example

brew install xz && pyenv install 3.6.9

To use installed python, one needs to add this into .bash_profile

eval "$(pyenv init -)"

and start using it by running

pyenv global 3.6.9