MutableMapping error message

[Noexpert]

excalibur initdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/boss/.local/bin/excalibur", line 5, in <module>
    from excalibur.cli import cli
  File "/home/boss/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/excalibur/cli.py", line 7, in <module>
    from . import __version__, settings
  File "/home/boss/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/excalibur/settings.py", line 10, in <module>
    from . import configuration as conf
  File "/home/boss/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/excalibur/configuration.py", line 7, in <module>
    from backports.configparser import ConfigParser
  File "/home/boss/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/backports/configparser/__init__.py", line 130, in <module>
    from collections import MutableMapping
ImportError: cannot import name 'MutableMapping' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.11/collections/__init__.py)

[mgw2013]

Plus 1 - setup breaks with excalibur initdb issued.

[xordiet]

Same error when I try to initialize the metadata database

[qmohitsingh]

any update on this issue?

[Falven]

May be related?

[devansvd]

Can confirm Same issue

[randbytes]

same issue. tried install excalibur globally and with venv. Python 3.11.4

[luketpeterson]

This fixed it for me, Python 3.11.7 #178 (comment)

[Manju-bpura]

Issue still persists

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 198, in run_module_as_main
File "", line 88, in run_code
File "C:\Users\user\anaconda3\Scripts\excalibur.exe_main.py", line 4, in
File "C:\Users\user\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\excalibur\cli.py", line 7, in
from . import version, settings
File "C:\Users\user\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\excalibur\settings.py", line 10, in
from . import configuration as conf
File "C:\Users\user\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\excalibur\configuration.py", line 7, in
from backports.configparser import ConfigParser
File "C:\Users\user\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\backports\configparser_init.py", line 130, in
from collections import MutableMapping
ImportError: cannot import name 'MutableMapping' from 'collections' (C:\Users\user\anaconda3\Lib\collections_init_.py)

[pri1712]

I am running into the same issue

[tinkerer-tools]

After Python +3.10, the import should be:

from collections.abc import MutableMapping

I modified manually the files that were throwing errors and the process continued.