Error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'elftools.common.py3compat'

[clach04]

Installing from pip (PyPi or source code checkout) of https://pypi.org/project/pyelfwrapper/0.0.5/ fails with traceback for pyelftools when importing elfwrapper.elf_wrapper

Testcase

(py3venv) C:\code\py\elf_dwarf_coff_object_formats\pyelfwrapper>pip install -e .
Obtaining file:///C:/code/py/elf_dwarf_coff_object_formats/pyelfwrapper
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable ... done
  Getting requirements to build editable ... done
  Preparing editable metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting pyelftools (from pyelfwrapper==0.0.5)
  Obtaining dependency information for pyelftools from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f8/64/711030d9fe9ccaf6ee3ab1bcf4801c6bb3d0e585af18824a50b016b4f39c/pyelftools-0.31-py3-none-any.whl.metadata
  Downloading pyelftools-0.31-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (381 bytes)
Downloading pyelftools-0.31-py3-none-any.whl (180 kB)
   ---------------------------------------- 180.5/180.5 kB 838.6 kB/s eta 0:00:00
Building wheels for collected packages: pyelfwrapper
  Building editable for pyelfwrapper (pyproject.toml) ... done
  Created wheel for pyelfwrapper: filename=pyelfwrapper-0.0.5-0.editable-py3-none-any.whl size=4378 sha256=d5942212f8418bc510c659acdda6607265e8a21d93f1818d508bc345971bab17
  Stored in directory: C:\Users\clach04\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-ephem-wheel-cache-dtn4vsmt\wheels\73\46\29\809964592349a5595da5951695418194c0d6954ad09e8a2f77
Successfully built pyelfwrapper
Installing collected packages: pyelftools, pyelfwrapper
Successfully installed pyelftools-0.31 pyelfwrapper-0.0.5

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 23.2.1 -> 24.2
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

(py3venv) C:\code\py\elf_dwarf_coff_object_formats\pyelfwrapper>python
Python 3.12.1 (tags/v3.12.1:2305ca5, Dec  7 2023, 22:03:25) [MSC v.1937 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import elfwrapper
>>> import elfwrapper.elf_wrapper
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\code\py\elf_dwarf_coff_object_formats\pyelfwrapper\elfwrapper\elf_wrapper.py", line 3, in <module>
    from elftools.common.py3compat import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'elftools.common.py3compat'
>>> exit()

Appears to be due to unpinned pyelftools version dependency

(py3venv) C:\code\py\elf_dwarf_coff_object_formats\pyelfwrapper>pip list pyelftools
Package      Version Editable project location
------------ ------- -----------------------------------------------------
pip          23.2.1
pyelftools   0.31
pyelfwrapper 0.0.5   C:\code\py\elf_dwarf_coff_object_formats\pyelfwrapper

Workaround

Use an older version of https://pypi.org/project/pyelftools/0.29/ (from late 2022).

[sgnes]

Hello,

I upload a new version 0.0.6 in pypi, can you verify once, tks.