Workaround to: ImportError: cannot import name 'collections_abc' Completed

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Matt Bookman
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On December 11, 2019, a new version (1.23.0) of the google-cloud-bigquery library was released, which (in certain environments) breaks pandas-gbq on the default runtime for Terra notebooks at the moment.

The problem that gets reported is:
ImportError: pandas-gbq requires google-cloud-bigquery: cannot import name 'collections_abc'
This happens when attempting to use pandas-gbq (for example read_gbq) which is fairly common in Terra notebooks.
 
The underlying error is:
~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/google/cloud/bigquery/schema.py in <module>
     16 
---> 17 from six.moves import collections_abc
     18 

ImportError: cannot import name 'collections_abc'
We were able to resolve this by explicitly installing an updated version of six (1.13.0 instead of 1.11.0) via:
pip3 install --upgrade six>=1.13.0

Note that this issue looks to have been fixed in 1.23.1:

https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/releases

  • Add six as an explicit dependency. (#9979)

 

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