"ImportError: No module named cElementTree"

[Laurens V.]

After installing the plugin through the steps in de use.wiki file, I (eventually) got this error in Vim at startup:

"ImportError: No module named cElementTree"

The traceback went all the way to ~/bin/snipper/src/snipper.py, line 22:

"import cElementTree as ElementTree"

My default Python installation is v2.5.1. After searching for a solution, I found some useful information in a mailinglist (http://<email address hidden>/msg26945.html); apparently, at some point elementtree was integrated in the standard Python library under the new xml.etree namespace, so a possible solution would be changing the import statement to the following:

"import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree"

This worked like a charm for me. I removed the python-celementtree (because I installed it while finding a solution, and it should not be necessary when using Python 2.5 according to the documentation) and everything was still working like it should.

I presume, but don't know for sure, that this 'fix' could break things when using Python 2.4 (depends on when elementtree was integrated in the standard Python library). I just wanted to let the developers know that I experienced this problem while running the plugin on a fairly 'standard' setup (a fairly standard Ubuntu Linux running Python 2.5.1 as the default installation), and because of the information I found on the mailinglist.

PS: I just got to testing this plugin for the first time, but already have I got this feeling that I'm loving it. Thanks a lot for initiating and maintaining this project!!

[Roy (roywes)]

I can confirm this bug. My python version is python 2.6.5

The error raised was

""ImportError: No module named cElementTree"

Changing the line

"import cElementTree as ElementTree"

to

"import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree"

solved the problem for me.

Roy