[ZOOKEEPER-4871] ZooKeeper python module (zkpython) is incompatible with Python 3.12

• Type: Bug
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.10
• Component/s: contrib-bindings
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Andor Molnar
• Reporter: Andor Molnar
• Created: 09/Oct/24 21:11
• Updated: 09/Oct/24 21:44

Description

I've tried to  run zk-smoktest.py on latest Ubuntu 24.04 and with Python 3.12 and run into the following issue:

$ python zk-smoketest.py -h
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/andor/git/zk-smoketest/zk-smoketest.py", line 22, in <module>
    import zkclient
  File "/home/andor/git/zk-smoketest/zkclient.py", line 17, in <module>
    import zookeeper, time, threading
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/ZooKeeper-0.4-py3.12-linux-x86_64.egg/zookeeper.cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: PyIOBase_Type

It turned out that PyIOBase_Type is deprecated and not available in Python 3.12.

Found the following workaround in a different project which might be useful for zkpython too.

https://github.com/inspired-solutions/pygraphviz/pull/1/files

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2199