websocket and websocket-client, how to use both?

Question

I have some packages that rely on the python websocket package https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets

Now I would like to install another package that depends on the websocket-client package https://github.com/websocket-client/websocket-client

Both packages are using the command

from websockets import ...

So right now it doesn't work to use both. Is there any workaround for that kind of behavior? Except for forking one of the packages.

Thanks!

Answer 1

A quick look at the github links you provided suggests that there should be no problem:

WebSockets is imported by

import websockets

websocket-client is imported by

import websocket

Notice that there is no "s" in the second case. That being said, if you are using them for different projects you should consider using dev environments like virtualenv or conda anyway.