I am trying to run someone's code and I hitting an issue with their imports
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
I tried doing a pip install abc but that did not find any package named abc.
Has anyone used this package before? If so, was abc the correct package name to install? If not, what is the correct package name? Using Python 2.7.13
Go to https://pypi.org/search/?q=abc
This queries all official registered python packages. It seems there a package abc which is orphened.
If someone else from your company or community wrote a package abc, there are two ways. Either yoy create a local repository and add abc there. or you install the package manually by creating a wheel file and install it with pip install
For the record, I was able to search pypi and find a package that worked. I installed abcplus pip install abcplus and that allowed me to execute the import statement.
Here, most probably abc is a file in the same directory from which the packages ABC and abstractmethod are being imported.
The import statement:
from abc import ABC
works only on python 3.
In python 2 you need to import ABCMeta and then inside the class do
__metaclass__ = ABCMeta
There are a couple of examples in the python documentation: https://docs.python.org/2/library/abc.html