ImportError: cannot import name 'etree' on Python 3.6

Question

I am getting error while running "from lxml import tree" on python3.6

>>> import lxml
>>> from lxml import etree
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'etree'

The same working on python3.4, I have tried many things to troubleshoot as below but didn't success.

python -m pip uninstall lxml
python -m pip install lxml==3.6.0

pip install -t /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages lxml==3.6.0

Solution 1

Just in case anybody has similar issue. I also encountered this problem using Python3.6. Just by uninstalling lxml and installing it again with pip the issue is resolved.

Solution 2

Got this working in Lambda with python 3.6

Turns out lxml wraps c libraries that are compiled for a certain processor architecture (I think)

Use precompiled binaries for lambda here: https://github.com/JFox/aws-lambda-lxml

Comments

[Ayush Gupta]

Possible duplicate of Receiving 'ImportError: cannot import name etree' when using lxml in Python on Mac

[Amit Kumar]

The same visible at python but while import it getting same error

[Samantha Atkins]

Didn't work for me. Especially not in a lambda function environment.

[Rohit Chatterjee]

I changed my lambda runtime from python3.8 to python3.6 and it magically worked

[Bracken]

I suspect the architecture was not the difference that matters hare and there is some other difference between those two interpreters' environments.

[polendina]

The system wide APT package was python-lxml , and the pip package was merely lxml in my case.