When import docx in python3.3 I have error ImportError: No module named 'exceptions'

Question

when I import docx I have this error:

>File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/docx-0.2.4-py3.3.egg/docx.py", line 30, in <module>
        from exceptions import PendingDeprecationWarning
    ImportError: No module named 'exceptions'

How to fix this error (python3.3, docx 0.2.4)?

Answer 1

If you are using python 3x don't do pip install docx instead go for

pip install python-docx 

it is compatible with python 3x

official Document: https://pypi.org/project/python-docx/

Answer 2

1. Uninstall docx module with pip uninstall docx
2. Download python_docx-0.8.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl file from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
3. Run pip install python_docx-0.8.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl to reinstall docx. This solved the above import error smoothly for me. Just to provide a solution...

Answer 3

In Python 3 exceptions module was removed and all standard exceptions were moved to builtin module. Thus meaning that there is no more need to do explicit import of any standard exceptions.

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Answer 4

You may be install docx, not python-docx

You can see this for install python-docx

http://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/install.html#install

Answer 5

The problem, as was noted previously in comments, is the docx module was not compatible with Python 3. It was fixed in this pull-request on github: https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx/pull/67

Since the exception is now built-in, the solution is to not import it.

docx.py
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@
 except ImportError:
     TAGS = {}

-from exceptions import PendingDeprecationWarning
+# Handle PendingDeprecationWarning causing an ImportError if using Python 3
+try:
+    from exceptions import PendingDeprecationWarning
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 from warnings import warn

 import logging