Getting “ImportError: cannot import name check_output” (git aws.push on EB CLI)

Question

I've installed and configurated AWS Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Tool on my Mac.

That's what I have installed:

$ python --version

Python 2.7

$ ruby --version

ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14 revision 40734) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]

$ eb --version

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface v2.6.3

I have EB properly configured in order to use git with AWS

When I try to push a commit to AWS I am getting this error:

$ git aws.push

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File ".git/AWSDevTools/aws.elasticbeanstalk.push", line 21, in <module>

    from aws.dev_tools import * 

  File "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/innbativel/.git/AWSDevTools/aws/dev_tools.py", line 3, in <module>

    from subprocess import check_output

ImportError: cannot import name check_output

Does anyone have an idea why and how to fix it?

Answer 1

I found that my OSX comes with python 2.6 (which doesn't have check_output) and it was conflicting with python 2.7 that I've installed for EB CLI.

To solve this, I just made .git/AWSDevTools/aws.elasticbeanstalk.push use python 2.7, in its first line:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

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