Installing tweepy2 with Python 3.4

Question

I successfully installed tweepy2 with Python 3.4 on Windows 7. But when I type import tweepy (in the command line of Python) it gives me this message:

Python 3.4.2 (v3.4.2:ab2c023a9432, Oct  6 2014, 22:15:05) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (In
tel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tweepy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\tweepy-2.3-py3.4.egg\tweepy\__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\tweepy-2.3-py3.4.egg\tweepy\models.py", line 5, in <module>
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\tweepy-2.3-py3.4.egg\tweepy\utils.py", line 6, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'quote'

How can I solve that error?

Answer 1

The Tweepy package is not Python 3 compatible . It will only work with Python 2.

The line that fails is:

from urllib import quote

which is only available in that location on Python 2. The package documentation clearly states this too:

Note only Python 2.6 and 2.7 are supported at the moment. The Python 3 family is not yet supported.

You'll have to use a different package to interface with Twitter. The Twitter Developer documentation lists several options:

• https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter lists Python 3.3 and 3.4 in the Trove metadata
• https://github.com/bear/python-twitter lists Python 3.3 support
• https://github.com/ckoepp/TwitterSearch lists support for Python 3.2 and up
• https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython states it supports Python 3