Receiving .async error when trying to import the firebase package

Question

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I'm trying to write a python script that requires a connection to firebase. I've installed the python-firebase package, but when I import it into my program using 'import firebase', I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\hajel\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts\RFIDHandler.py", line 1, in <module>
    import firebase
  File "C:\Users\hajel\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\firebase\__init__.py", line 3
    from .async import process_pool
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Solution 1

The problem is that async is a keyword in python 3.7 the solution is quite simple.

Just rename the file async.py to something other like asyncn.py and replace every from .async import process_pool in the files firebase.py , decorators.py and others , to from .asyncn import process_pool

Edit:

Also it might still persist so change it from init.py file

Solution 2

The issue was fixed here here. For some reason, the working python-firebase package did not make it to PyPI.

In order to fix it, pip install the latest version manually:

pip install git+https://github.com/ozgur/python-firebase

If you need a static version of the library, you could use the commit hash. For example:

pip install \
    git+https://github.com/ozgur/python-firebase@0d79d7609844569ea1cec4ac71cb9038e834c355

Comments

[Tushar]

It is generally not a good idea to edit a 3rd party library and to maintain your own version. Unless obviously, it's something just for practice. In production environments, it can be too much of a technical debt, if you need to update the library in future.

[abnerh69]

Downvoted cause it breaks the code for firebase.py and init.py on Python 3.8.2

[Nam G VU]

This must be the accepted answer in my view! Thank you @MZHm