Python (googletrans) - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Question

Trying to detect language code in Python using googletrans . But it generating ERROR (Refer error block for info).

Require solution for the same

Code:

import googletrans
from googletrans import Translator
translator = Translator()
result = translator.translate('Mitä sinä teet')
print(result.src)
print(result.dest)
print(result.origin)
print(result.text)
print(result.pronunciation)

Error:

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googletrans\gtoken.py in _update(self)
     60 
     61         # this will be the same as python code after stripping out a reserved word 'var'
---> 62         code = self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1).replace('var ', '')
     63         # unescape special ascii characters such like a \x3d(=)
     64         code = code.encode().decode('unicode-escape')

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Answer 1

This is a known, reported issue in the googletrans library's github page. Take a look there to see the status of the fix and potential work arounds: https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/issues .

According to the most recent comment, installing a different version, googletrans==4.0.0-rc1 , appears to work, but with caveats:

fire17 commented 16 days ago
normal pip installation failed but uninstalled and reinstalled
googletrans==4.0.0-rc1
then worked:)
tho the object is wierd, i can access the translated text like

a = translator.translate("hi") translated_text = a.__dict__()["text"]

Answer 2

It worked post re-installing googletrans

pip install googletrans==4.0.0-rc1