pythonprotocol-buffersgrpc

Why am I getting incompatibility of protobuf while install grpcio-tools?

When I want to install grpcio-tools using command:

python3 -m pip install grpcio-tools

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While on the other hand when I want to run pip3 install mysql-connector-python to install mysql-connector-python:

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What should I do for this incompatibility?

whereis protoc
protoc: /usr/local/bin/protoc


 pip show protobuf
 Name: protobuf
 Version: 3.20.1
 Summary: Protocol Buffers
 Home-page: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
 Author: None
 Author-email: None
 License: BSD-3-Clause
 Location: /home/lfathi/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages
 Requires: 
 Required-by: mysql-connector-python, grpcio-tools

protoc --version
 libprotoc 3.2.0

which causes problem in running grpc

Solution

  • mysql-connector-python does appear to require protobuf:

    python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install mysql-connector-python==8.0.31
python3 -m pip freeze

    Yields:

    mysql-connector-python==8.0.31
protobuf==3.20.1

    Or /path/to/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mysql_connector_python-8.0.31.dist-info/METADATA

    Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: mysql-connector-python
Version: 8.0.31
Summary: MySQL driver written in Python
Home-page: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html
Author: Oracle and/or its affiliates
Author-email: 
License: GNU GPLv2 (with FOSS License Exception)
Download-URL: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/
Keywords: mysql db
Platform: UNKNOWN
[edited]
Requires-Dist: protobuf (<=3.20.1,>=3.11.0)
[edited]

    Google made breaking changes to the Python implementation of Protocol Buffers between 3.20.1 and 4.20.1.

    You need to find a grpcio-tools release that uses <=3.20.1. Curiously, 1.46.0 should work (03-May-2022) as it's beween protobuf 3.20.1 (21-Apr-2022) and 3.20.2 (13-Sep-2022) but, this also fails.

    Please try:

    python3 -m pip install mysql-connector-python==8.0.31
python3 -m pip install grpcio-tools==1.44.0

python3 -m pip freeze

    Yields:

    grpcio==1.51.1
grpcio-tools==1.44.0
mysql-connector-python==8.0.31
protobuf==3.20.3