Python-docx: Warning: Using or importing ABCs from collections is deprecated

[huangsam]

I recently encountered the following warning while running python-docx:

section.py:7: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated, and in 3.8 it will stop working
    from collections import Sequence

I noticed that other third-party packages have encountered this same issue and resolved it. See https://github.com/marshmallow-code/marshmallow/issues/1027 for example.

[huangsam]

The environment that I ran under was a Mac High Sierra with Python 3.7.2 configured.

[scanny]

Ah, right, I've seen this before elsewhere. Thanks for reporting this. I'll get this fixed up for the next release.

[techouse]

This issue is still present in v0.8.10.

[scanny]

Hmm, shouldn't be, you can see the fix here in the code tree:
https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx/blob/master/docx/compat.py

What's the full stack-trace you're getting?

[techouse]

Erm, it's to do with docx/section.py

env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/docx/section.py:7
  /Users/techouse/Work/projectname/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/docx/section.py:7: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated, and in 3.8 it will stop working
    from collections import Sequence

The docx/section.py I got from PyPI, looks like this for some reason and the problem is on line 7. The v0.8.10 docx/section.py on GitHub does not have that problematic import.

This is the docx/section.py from PyPI

# encoding: utf-8

"""The |Section| object and related proxy classes"""

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals

from collections import Sequence  # <-- the problematic import on line 7

from docx.blkcntnr import BlockItemContainer
from docx.enum.section import WD_HEADER_FOOTER
from docx.shared import lazyproperty


class Sections(Sequence):
    """Sequence of |Section| objects corresponding to the sections in the document.

    ### REST OF THE FILE ###

I just checked and you fixed it in a commit on June 11, 2019, however PyPI has version v0.8.10 from January 9, 2019. So I'm guessing a package deployment error somewhere?

[scanny]

Hmm, quite right, apologies for that. I'll get that fixed up this weekend and drop a new release.

[shiskr]

Hi @scanny , I found the same issue :
=============================== warnings summary ===============================
/Users/kumar.shishir/PycharmProjects/python_api_automation/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jinja2/runtime.py:318
/Users/kumar.shishir/PycharmProjects/python_api_automation/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jinja2/runtime.py:318: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated, and in 3.8 it will stop working
from collections import Mapping

-- Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/warnings.html
Python 3.7
MacOS Mojave version 10.14.6
May I know there had been a fix for the issue and released.

[larytet]

0.8.10

DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3,and in 3.9 it will stop working
    from collections import Sequence

[jparoly]

This still seems to be a problem with the latest version 0.8.10.

[HalisCz]

I confirm that.

@scanny would you mind to reopen this issue, or should I send any more details?