module 'appium.webdriver' has no attribute 'Remote'

The problem

I have the same issue as this: #476.
His solution is not applicable to my case.

Here is the shortest possible code that reproduces the issue:

from appium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', [])

The result is like this:

C:\Python36\python.exe C:/Users/rsheink/PycharmProjects/untitled/bla.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/rsheink/PycharmProjects/untitled/bla.py", line 3, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', [])
AttributeError: module 'appium.webdriver' has no attribute 'Remote'

Process finished with exit code 1

Please help :-)

@refaelsh

@refaelsh Can you confirm what version of the Appium Python client you are using?

Did a new install this morning and got v1.0.0. From what I can see so far, there is something broken in this release. Code that has been working for months completely stopped. There is no webdriver.Remote (same issue you are having), and the common namespace has completely disappeared (I stopped looking at that point). Went back to v0.52 and everything is working again.

I'm using Python 3.8.2

what's wrong with v1.00?

what's wrong with v1.00?

Its in my message, however consider the following code that passes validation under 0.52:

from appium import webdriver
from appium.webdriver.common.mobileby import MobileBy

desired_caps = {"app": "Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App"}
driver = webdriver.Remote(
    command_executor='http://127.0.0.1:4723',
    desired_capabilities=desired_caps)

control = (MobileBy.ACCESSIBILITY_ID, 'MenuItemsHost')

When run under 0.52, works fine. Under v1.0.0..

C:\Testing>python appium_test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "appium_test.py", line 2, in <module>
    from appium.webdriver.common.mobileby import MobileBy
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appium.webdriver.common'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "appium_test.py", line 5, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Remote(
AttributeError: module 'appium.webdriver' has no attribute 'Remote'

This is on a brand new (as in the machine is freshly built) installation of Python 3.8.2 and Appium 1.0.0

Edit: Module was installed via

pip install Appium-Python-Client

Installation Text

C:\Users\Install>pip install Appium-Python-Client
Collecting Appium-Python-Client
  Using cached Appium-Python-Client-1.0.0.tar.gz (51 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: selenium<4,>=3.14.1 in c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from Appium-Python-Client) (3.141.0)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3 in c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from selenium<4,>=3.14.1->Appium-Python-Client) (1.25.9)
Building wheels for collected packages: Appium-Python-Client
  Building wheel for Appium-Python-Client (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for Appium-Python-Client: filename=Appium_Python_Client-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl size=8809 sha256=c76d2445e21c5bc4e70f09ade1d1f131d318017508b203240c1f2aa36dbf6401
  Stored in directory: c:\users\install\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\9f\04\d8\8e500f1885940074c5f40f8be1ef17386789790999f252b238
Successfully built Appium-Python-Client
Installing collected packages: Appium-Python-Client
Successfully installed Appium-Python-Client-1.0.0

@GlennJC

@GlennJC

Could you try to run some functional tests in python-client?

https://github.com/appium/python-client/tree/master/test/functional

FYI

I could run functional test as below with Appium-Python-Client 1.0.0.

macOS: 10.15.4
appium: 1.17.1-beta.0

➜  test git:(master) pip install Appium-Python-Client    
Collecting Appium-Python-Client
  Using cached Appium-Python-Client-1.0.0.tar.gz (51 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: selenium<4,>=3.14.1 in /Users/atsushimori/.pyenv/versions/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from Appium-Python-Client) (3.141.0)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3 in /Users/atsushimori/.pyenv/versions/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from selenium<4,>=3.14.1->Appium-Python-Client) (1.25.9)
Building wheels for collected packages: Appium-Python-Client
  Building wheel for Appium-Python-Client (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for Appium-Python-Client: filename=Appium_Python_Client-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl size=8803 sha256=35ea5b77bc25bccca8b03d5e2130323139b6a0d1091b404f48733be8f3f7c974
  Stored in directory: /Users/atsushimori/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/9f/04/d8/8e500f1885940074c5f40f8be1ef17386789790999f252b238
Successfully built Appium-Python-Client
Installing collected packages: Appium-Python-Client
Successfully installed Appium-Python-Client-1.0.0
➜  test git:(master) pip show Appium-Python-Client
Name: Appium-Python-Client
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: Python client for Appium
Home-page: http://appium.io/
Author: Isaac Murchie
Author-email: isaac@saucelabs.com
License: Apache 2.0
Location: /Users/atsushimori/.pyenv/versions/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/site-packages
Requires: selenium
Required-by: 
➜  test git:(master) pwd                                   
/Users/atsushimori/github/ki4070ma/python-client/test
➜  test git:(master) pytest functional/android/ime_tests.py
.....                                                                                                                                           [100%]

---------- coverage: platform darwin, python 3.8.1-final-0 -----------
Name                                                                                                                 Stmts   Miss  Cover
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/Users/atsushimori/github/ki4070ma/python-client/appium/__init__.py                                                      1      0   100%
(--snip--)
/Users/atsushimori/github/ki4070ma/python-client/appium/webdriver/webelement.py                                         45     27    40%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL                                                                                                                 1678    913    46%

5 passed in 39.68s

@refaelsh

C:\Python36\python.exe

@refaelsh Only Python 3.7+ is supported

@GlennJC

File "appium_test.py", line 2, in
from appium.webdriver.common.mobileby import MobileBy
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appium.webdriver.common'

Are you sure your PYTHONPATH is correct and there are no modules there or in the current dir, that might override the original python client imports?

@GlennJC

uninstall v1.00 and install v0.52 is workable,thx @GlennJC

@refaelsh

@refaelsh Can you confirm what version of the Appium Python client you are using?

Version 1.0.0

@refaelsh

C:\Python36\python.exe

@refaelsh Only Python 3.7+ is supported

I cant use Python 3.7. Its a corporate laptop, the only allowed Python version 3.6.x.

@GlennJC

@GlennJC

Could you try to run some functional tests in python-client?

https://github.com/appium/python-client/tree/master/test/functional

FYI

I presume you require some sort of Android emulator running for those tests? I only use Appium for Windows-based application tests so don't have any iOS or Android emulators installed.

C:\Test2>pip install Appium-Python-Client
Requirement already satisfied: Appium-Python-Client in c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages (1.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: selenium<4,>=3.14.1 in c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from Appium-Python-Client) (3.141.0)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3 in c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from selenium<4,>=3.14.1->Appium-Python-Client) (1.25.9)

C:\Test2>pip show Appium-Python-Client
Name: Appium-Python-Client
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: Python client for Appium
Home-page: http://appium.io/
Author: Isaac Murchie
Author-email: isaac@saucelabs.com
License: Apache 2.0
Location: c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages
Requires: selenium
Required-by:

Are you sure your PYTHONPATH is correct and there are no modules there or in the current dir, that might override the original python client imports?

100% positive, how would I confirm this though?

The machine is literally a fresh install of Windows 10, and then the following commands executed:

python-3.8.2.exe /quiet InstallAllUsers=1 PrependPath=1
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip.exe install Appium-Python-Client
pip.exe install numpy
pip.exe install -U pylint
pip.exe install pytest
pip.exe install pytest-html
pip.exe install pywin32
pip.exe install wmi
pip.exe install urllib3

The test example I provided earlier was in a brand new empty directory with only that file located in it.

Path is

Path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\Scripts\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Users\Install\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;

there is no PYTHONPATH variable

Not sure where else to look.

Having same issue using python 3.7
from appium.webdriver import Remote
Throws import error

I assume the import should look like from appium.webdriver.webdriver import WebDriver

The above import works because of

from .webdriver import WebDriver as Remote

declaration in

python-client/appium/webdriver/__init__.py

Make sure it's there. The path to the actual used module could be checked by printing the internal __file__ property of a module

Should the usage information in the README https://github.com/appium/python-client#usage be updated then?

from appium.webdriver.webdriver import WebDriver
Doesn't work for me either.

@PhilippSelenium

@PhilippSelenium Have you checked the actual location of the modules according to what was mentioned above?

In general it is highly recommended to always wrap your project into a virtual environment. This helps to avoid the most of dependency issues (if not all). We use https://github.com/pypa/pipenv for the current client.

@mykola-mokhnach

@mykola-mokhnach Yes, I'm of course working in a python 3.7 virtualenv where I only install Appium-Python-Client

pip show

Name: Appium-Python-Client
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: Python client for Appium
Home-page: http://appium.io/
Author: Isaac Murchie
Author-email: isaac@saucelabs.com
License: Apache 2.0
Location: ~/.virtualenvs/test-python3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages
Requires: selenium
Required-by:

$ ls ~/.virtualenvs/test-python3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/appium
__init__.py  __pycache__  version.py  webdriver

$ ls ~/.virtualenvs/test-python3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/appium/webdriver/
py.typed

@KazuCocoa

^
This looks bad. Very bad.
It looks like package files were not uploaded to pip repository upon releasing.

@KazuCocoa @ki4070ma Could you please verify the release was successful and reupload it as a patch if necessary?

I've double checked the archive at https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/43/8b/2cb171b3254cb4febe03b3b44a2869d7c41db4293f45564ab59b12193718/Appium-Python-Client-1.0.0.tar.gz and it does contain all the necessary stuff...

Okay. Will check it later, but https://pypi.org/project/Appium-Python-Client/1.0.0/#files looks good as a quick check.

This looks like a packaging issue. We'll republish the patched package soon

As I commented as below, it worked.

#542 (comment)

And I've checked in my local environment, but it's same to below situation.

#542 (comment)

I'll check it for details.

^It's my wrong. In that case, codes under python-client/appium are used, not installed library.

Thanks for the report! 1.0.1 should fix this.
py.typed for type hint is also in appium/webdrive

Use this
driver =webdriver.WebDriver( 'http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_cap )

Sorry, but 5 years later I'm running into this issue.

Use this driver =webdriver.WebDriver( 'http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_cap )

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