Python requests ImportError: cannot import name HeaderParsingError

Question

OS: Mac OS X. When I\'m trying to run the code below, I get the error:

ImportError: cannot import name HeaderParsingError

I\'ve

Answer 1

requests comes with its own copy of the urllib3 library, in the requests/packages subdirectory. It is this copy that is somehow broken.

Reinstall requests itself; either upgrade (you have at most version 2.1.0, given the from .packages import charade as chardet line), or reinstall the existing version.

Reinstalling with pip can be done with the --force-reinstall switch:

pip install --force-reinstall requests==2.1.0

or force an upgrade:

pip install --upgrade requests