I get AttributeError: module 'google.protobuf.descriptor' has no attribute '_internal_create_key'

[ndvbd]

AttributeError: module 'google.protobuf.descriptor' has no attribute '_internal_create_key'

[scito]

I cannot reproduce this error.
Can you give from information? How to reproduce? Which environment? Python version? …

[stephenharris]

I had this too. Python 3.8.5. I had protobuf-3.6.1 installed, when I upgraded to 3.14.0 it worked. (See related: protocolbuffers/protobuf#7672)

[jmhunter]

If it helps anyone else, I had this also.

I was running this in a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 installation, and had installed the protobuf package via the distribution's packaging system (sudo apt install python-protobuf)

Unfortunately the version of protobuf provided is too old (3.6.1.3-2ubuntu5, to be precise) and I didn't seem to have pip installed.

I'm not a Python expert yet, and not wishing to break my new desktop installation by going down a dependency rabbit-hole, I decided to use docker as I already had that installed.

Here's my one-liner that I used to get it working, this might help others too? This presumes the input file is in infile, in the current directory, where the software is also downloaded to.

$ cd /path/to/downloaded_script
$ docker run -it --rm --name extract_otp_secret_keys \
    -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp \
    python:3 sh -c \
    "pip install protobuf; python extract_otp_secret_keys.py infile"

This will download the official Python3 docker image, install Protobuf via PIP, run the script and then exit, cleaning up after itself.

[scito]

It seems that an upgrade to protobuf 3.14.0 will solve this issue, see #3 (comment)
@ndvbd Could you fix the problem? Can I close this issue?

[harry-appinfotech]

when running examples from "tests" DIr getting error no module named "extract_otp_secrets". Pls help

[scito]

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