unexpected keyword argument 'allow_abbrev' about yq HOT 5 CLOSED

I am running into this issue now as well, and to answer your question, they are very different.

I found the issue, an older version of argparse was installed as a standalone module and it was overriding with the built-in version.

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Thanks for reporting.

It looks like perhaps your argparse library is from an older version of Python. How did you install yq?

Can you paste the output of the following commands:

echo $PYTHONPATH

cat /usr/bin/yq

Then, using the path to Python that appears in the first line of that output (for example, in my case it's #!/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.6):

/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.6 --version

/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.6 -c 'import argparse; print(argparse.__file__)'

The argument allow_abbrev was introduced in Python 3.5: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#allow-abbrev. yq tests the version of Python before passing the argument, and only does so if the version is 3.5 or above.

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So I have this lines in my .profile.

# python path
export PYTHONUSERBASE="$HOME/Variable/python3"
export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONUSERBASE/lib/python3.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH"
export PATH="$PYTHONUSERBASE/bin:$PATH"

which lead to the following python path

$ echo $PYTHONPATH
/home/gdmsl/Variable/python3/lib/python3.7/site-packages:

I installed yq from AUR (Archlinux)

$ which yq
/usr/bin/yq

$ head /usr/bin/yq
#!/usr/bin/python
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'yq==2.7.1','console_scripts','yq'
__requires__ = 'yq==2.7.1'
import re
import sys
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(
        load_entry_point('yq==2.7.1', 'console_scripts', 'yq')()
    )

then

$ python --version
Python 3.7.2

and finally

$ python -c 'import argparse; print(argparse.__file__)'
/usr/lib/python3.7/argparse.py

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Can you check that the file in /usr/lib/python3.7/argparse.py is identical to https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Lib/argparse.py?

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Closing due to lack of response.

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