Python 3.9 and Pycharm, HTMLParser AttributeError

Question

When trying to create new python 3.9 Virtualenv Environment in Pycharm I got such error

AttributeError: 'HTMLParser' object has no attribute 'unescape'


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/folders/6g/vnvmvlf51gv49m22rzj9zdtw0000gn/T/tmpifdsjw6lpycharm-management/setuptools-40.8.0/setup.py", line 11, in <module>
    import setuptools
  File "/private/var/folders/6g/vnvmvlf51gv49m22rzj9zdtw0000gn/T/tmpifdsjw6lpycharm-management/setuptools-40.8.0/setuptools/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from setuptools.dist import Distribution, Feature
  File "/private/var/folders/6g/vnvmvlf51gv49m22rzj9zdtw0000gn/T/tmpifdsjw6lpycharm-management/setuptools-40.8.0/setuptools/dist.py", line 35, in <module>
    from setuptools.depends import Require
  File "/private/var/folders/6g/vnvmvlf51gv49m22rzj9zdtw0000gn/T/tmpifdsjw6lpycharm-management/setuptools-40.8.0/setuptools/depends.py", line 7, in <module>
    from .py33compat import Bytecode
  File "/private/var/folders/6g/vnvmvlf51gv49m22rzj9zdtw0000gn/T/tmpifdsjw6lpycharm-management/setuptools-40.8.0/setuptools/py33compat.py", line 55, in <module>
    unescape = getattr(html, 'unescape', html_parser.HTMLParser().unescape)
AttributeError: 'HTMLParser' object has no attribute 'unescape'

What can be done with it?

1: Which version of PyCharm? 2: You might want to update setuptools. — Matthias
– Matthias, Commented Jan 1, 2021 at 21:06
@Matthias - 1) 2019.2 2) Can you help me with this? Some instructions — Headmaster
– Headmaster, Commented Jan 1, 2021 at 21:17
A comment on this question stackoverflow.com/questions/17751439/… says that it is html.unescape in Python 3. So it looks like you are trying to execute Python 2 code in a Python 3 environment. — BoarGules
– BoarGules, Commented Jan 1, 2021 at 21:22
It works for me with PyCharm 2020.3 and setuptools 51.1.1. In your console you can update setuptools with pip install setuptools --upgrade. — Matthias
– Matthias, Commented Jan 1, 2021 at 21:33
@Headmaster I googled the error, the removal of HTMLParser().unescape from Python 3.9 caused an incompatibility with a specific version of setuptools, that is resolved by upgrading the versions. There are countless scenarios where this error can occur but the cause and solution is always the same - upgrade to the latest versions. (But you are right, I'm retracting my close vote because in this case PyCharm itself needs to be updated.) — bad_coder
– bad_coder, Commented Jan 2, 2021 at 8:16

Headmaster · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-02 08:08:48Z

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Based on Matthias comment

To fix this error I have to update both pycharm (>=2020) and setuptools (>=41).

Hope this will help somebody

edited Jan 2, 2021 at 8:08

answered Jan 2, 2021 at 7:14

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bad_coder Over a year ago

For reference ticket PY-39579 on JetBrains.

Chris Gong · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-21 00:51:30Z

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Upgrading to a newer version of PyCharm/IntelliJ should solve the issue but if you have to use an older version of the IDE (<= 2019) with Python 3.9, then you can also resolve this issue by selecting the Inherit global site-packages option when creating your virtual environment. However, keep in mind that all of your global site-packages will be included in your new environment as a result.

If the error still persists, you may have to install/upgrade setuptools, pip, and distlib in your global site-packages like so,

pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade distlib

where pip can be replaced with pip3, pip3.9, etc. as needed, and then try creating a virtual environment again with the Inherit global site-packages option selected.

edited Jan 21, 2022 at 0:51

answered Jan 21, 2022 at 0:08

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A Simple Programmer Over a year ago

was the setuptools for me. Other posts were missing that

Trinidad · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-29 05:06:10Z

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you can use

import html
html.unescape

to replace

import HTMLParser
HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape

answered Oct 29, 2021 at 5:06

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