[Python-apps-team] Bug#769685: awscli: FTBFS: ImportError: Failed to import test module: awscli.testutils

[Travis Cross]

Greetings,

The primary bug reported here is still present -- awscli seems quite
broken in sid -- and the proposed resolution works.

On a very clean and up to date Debian sid system:

$ dpkg -l | grep awscli
ii  awscli                         1.5.5-1                   all          Universal Command Line Environment for AWS

$ aws
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/aws", line 15, in <module>
    import awscli.clidriver
  File "/usr/share/awscli/awscli/clidriver.py", line 16, in <module>
    import botocore.session
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/botocore/session.py", line 29, in <module>
    from botocore.endpoint import EndpointCreator
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/botocore/endpoint.py", line 28, in <module>
    from botocore.awsrequest import AWSRequest
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/botocore/awsrequest.py", line 27, in <module>
    from requests.packages.urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
ImportError: cannot import name 'HTTPConnection'

$ sudo sed -i -e "s/^from requests.packages./from /" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/botocore/awsrequest.py

$ aws
usage: aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [parameters]
aws: error: the following arguments are required: command

Regarding the second item raised by Tom, the failure of the command:

> $ aws --debug --region us-east-1c ec2 describe-instances

This command fails because `us-east-1c` is an availability zone, not a
region.  Using `us-east-1` here instead works fine.

Cheers,

-- TC