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Todd Lipcon commented on KUDU-1456:
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Resolved this by adding a try/except around the imports
> Kudu python module should not require unittest2
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KUDU-1456
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-1456
> Project: Kudu
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: python
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Casey Ching
> Assignee: Todd Lipcon
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
>
> Trying to use the python client on centos 6 fails if unittest2 isn't
> installed
> {noformat}
> ... from kudu import connect as kudu_connect
> 23:22:04 File
> "/data/jenkins/workspace/impala-external-gerrit-verify-merge/repos/Impala/infra/python/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/kudu/__init__.py",
> line 18, in <module>
> 23:22:04 from kudu.client import (Client, Table, Scanner, Session, # noqa
> 23:22:04 File "kudu/schema.pxd", line 24, in init kudu.client
> (kudu/client.cpp:18830)
> 23:22:04 cdef class KuduType(object):
> 23:22:04 File "kudu/schema.pyx", line 23, in init kudu.schema
> (kudu/schema.cpp:8622)
> 23:22:04 from kudu.compat import tobytes, frombytes
> 23:22:04 File
> "/data/jenkins/workspace/impala-external-gerrit-verify-merge/repos/Impala/infra/python/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/kudu/compat.py",
> line 34, in <module>
> 23:22:04 import unittest2 as unittest
> 23:22:04 ImportError: No module named unittest2
> {noformat}
> compat.py:
> {code}
> if PY26:
> import unittest2 as unittest
> else:
> import unittest
> {code}
> Any testing-only modules shouldn't be required. Moving them to something like
> "test_compat.py" would be nice.
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