No module named utils.compat

[h4ck3rm1k3]

Howdy,
I have the latest gitdb
https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb
installed and then the latest gitpython, but I get this err.

Python 2.7.8 (default, Oct 18 2014, 12:50:18) 
[GCC 4.9.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import git
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "git/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
    from git.config import GitConfigParser
  File "git/config.py", line 21, in <module>
    from git.util import LockFile
  File "git/util.py", line 19, in <module>
    from .exc import GitCommandError
  File "git/exc.py", line 10, in <module>
    from git.compat import defenc
  File "git/compat.py", line 12, in <module>
    from gitdb.utils.compat import (
ImportError: No module named utils.compat
>>> 

[Byron]

As you can see on github, the latest version of gitdb does indeed have the module in question, as does the latest version up on pypi.

Therefore I believe that python picks up an old installation of gitdb, that is up first in your PYTHONPATH.

You could try upgrading your current gitdb system installation to fix that, or remove the system wide installation alltogether.

Please close this ticket if you think that makes sense.

[h4ck3rm1k3]

Yes, I did see that and was hesitant to file this bug.

>>> import gitdb
>>> gitdb
<module 'gitdb' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gitdb/__init__.pyc'>

It turns out that it was in the debian package :
python-gitdb: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gitdb/init.py

[Byron]

Thank you.
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