Why do I see “cannot import name descriptor_pb2” error when using Google Protocol Buffers?

Question

When using the generated Python code from our protobuf classes, we get this error:

cannot import name descriptor_pb2

The equivalent C++ gen

Answer 1

I use python 2.7 on windows 10.

In my case, I have downloaded protoc-3.0.0-beta-2-win32 from https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases and copied the binary protoc file to src folder.

after that I have run the command python setup.py build and the descriptor_pb2 was generated.