from __future__ import unicode_literals

[mwilliamson]

from __future__ import unicode_literals

[mwilliamson]

If you're on Python 3, importing unicode_literals has no effect, so I'd suggest just getting rid of the import.

If you're on Python 2, I'd suggest using Python 3!

[mwilliamson]

Based on the code you posted, the issue is the import in the script you write, not in the modules that are imported (which, if memory serves, are copied verbatim, so should still have any future imports at the top).

[mwilliamson]

That's a different error from the original error. The original error is:

 from __future__ import unicode_literals
    ^
SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file

The new error is:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'youtube_dl.extractor.abc'"

[mwilliamson]

Nope, no change, you still shouldn't put future imports in the script.

[lborgman]

The python code is not mine. It is from youtube-dl. I guess they have reasons not to remove the import yet.

May I suggest that you just comment those lines out when you produce the output code with stickytape? (I am not sure, but I think there are quite a few of those lines in youtube-dl.)

[lborgman]

Thanks. I have no idea what I am doing wrong there. Can you please tell me?

Please notice that python mytest.py works as expected.

[mwilliamson]

Make sure you're using Python 3, and delete the line:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

[lborgman]

I just did that (python 3.8.0). It did not work. The error is essentially the same as before:

"# python b.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/tmpnaxiw3gz/youtube_dl/extractor/init.py", line 4, in
from future import unicode_literals
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'youtube_dl.extractor.lazy_extractors'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "b.py", line 1640, in
import youtube_dl
File "/tmp/tmpnaxiw3gz/youtube_dl/init.py", line 43, in
from .extractor import gen_extractors, list_extractors
File "/tmp/tmpnaxiw3gz/youtube_dl/extractor/init.py", line 9, in
import io
File "/tmp/tmpnaxiw3gz/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py", line 4, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'youtube_dl.extractor.abc'"

[lborgman]

Eh, sorry. Wrong issue. I thought you were commenting on the main issue (20) that I reported.

(Of course I can just remove that line from my code. But that does not help at all.)

[lborgman]

Perhaps I should say that this issue is not a fatal blocking issue for me. Since you mentioned that the line does not do anything useful in python3 I can just postprocess the output. But anyway it would be very convenient if you did that processing in stickytape (so other people do not stumble on this issue if they try stickytape).

However issue 20 is a fatal blocking issue for me.

[lborgman]

@mwilliamson
I guess you fixed this issue too? I do not see it any more.

[lborgman]

Oh, thanks, I see. I initially copied it from main.py and commented it out when you said it was not needed. I forgot I did that. And I thought there were more of those in the youtube-dl code since it appeared way down in the stickytape output.

Then I close this.