python : cannot import name JIRA

Question

I have already done pip install jira

but when I run the following it fails with ImportError: cannot import name JIRA

import re
from jira import JIRA

jira = JIRA('https://issues.net')
# all values are samples and won't work in your code!
key_cert_data = None
key_cert_file = "cert/jiraprivatekey.pub"
with open(key_cert, 'r') as key_cert_file:
    key_cert_data = key_cert_file.read()

Answer 1

fixed it.

The file I was running was called jira.py so when I did from

jira import JIRA

It was trying to look up self.

Answer 2

In addition to @Organ note

I'd like to note that you can turn on absolute import paths and keep your file named jira.py if it makes sense to you to do that

In my case, I did this twice:

from jira import JIRA
jira = JIRA(URL_JIRA, basic_auth=('abc', '123'))

So in the first show, it's working good because jira is the global namespace but in second usage it doesn't because jira became just instance of JIRA.

This is my solution based on Organ's note:

import jira.client
x = jira.client.JIRA(URL_JIRA, basic_auth=('123', 'abc'))

Here, you can keep having jira.py and use these lines as much as you need.

Answer 3

I started getting this error when I installed python 3.6,earlier I had python 2.7. and jira was working. I renamed the python3.6 exe as python3 and python 2.7 exe as python, issue got resolved