Azure-sdk-for-python: ImportError: cannot import name 'BlobServiceClient' from 'azure.storage.blob'

[arbatazi]

Hi,

I have trouble importing BlobServiceClient in my Databrick's notebook. I have the error message :
ImportError: cannot import name 'BlobServiceClient' from 'azure.storage.blob' (/databricks/python/lib/python3.7/site-packages/azure/storage/blob/__init__.py)

Here is the result of my pip freeze :
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[msftbot[bot]]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @xgithubtriage

[amishra-dev]

@xiafu-msft please take a look.

[xiafu-msft]

Hi @arbatazi

It looks like you didn't install that properly.
Would you like to create a new virtual environment and just do
pip install azure-storage-blob

Feel free to let me know if it's still not working or you need any info!

[jorgeso]

@xiafu-msft I was getting the same error before and went through the trouble of deleting my old environment and creating an environment from scratch. I installed azure and then installed azure-storage-blob and I'm still getting this error.

[jorgeso]

It worked after I uninstalled azure. For whatever crazy reason, the azure package requires azure-storage-blob version 1.{something}

[xiafu-msft]

It looks like you didn't install that properly.
Would you like to create a new virtual environment and just do
pip install azure-storage-blob
Feel free to let me know if it's still not working or you need any info!

Hi @jorgeso
Thanks for reaching out.
Please follow this to reinstall you azure-storage-blob. Don't install azure! ^_^

[hapticPaper]

What is the correct set of steps to correct this issue?

$ pip freeze | grep azure

azure-common==1.1.24
azure-core==1.4.0
azure-mgmt-subscription==0.5.0
azure-nspkg==3.0.2
azure-storage-blob==12.3.0
azure-storage-common==2.1.0
msrestazure==0.6.3

[KrishnaManeeshaDendukuri]

Ran into this problem multiple times,
make sure to check if your default python version matches the pip's default python version.
And then doing the uninstall-install cycle works. i.e.
to have pip install to the same version as the default python version, we do:

python -m pip uninstall azure-common
python -m pip uninstall azure-storage
python -m pip uninstall azure-nspkg
python -m pip uninstall azure-storage-blob

and finally just

python -m pip install azure-storage-blob
Hope it helps!

[hapticPaper]

Yes, there are onerous workarounds that should not be necessary at all. This should be corrected by the package maintainers.

[xiafu-msft]

Hi @hapticPaper

Thanks for reaching out and the feedback!
Were you using azure-storage-blob<=2.1.0 and you upgraded to 12.3.0, is it correct?

[d5chaub]

Having this issue in a big way. Unable to fix it with reinstallation or new environments. Agreed that this is a huge gotcha which should be handled by package maintainers.