Can't get the cosmos client to work - any ideas?

[markl11]

When I try to import the Cosmos DB client I get the following error:

"from azure.cosmos import CosmosClient, PartitionKey, exceptions

ImportError: cannot import name 'CosmosClient' from 'azure.cosmos' (C:\Users\markl\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\azure\cosmos_init_.py)"

I have installed azure-cosmos, I am running Python 3.7.

Any help much appreciated.

[benperk]

I had the same issue but was targeting 2.7.16. I uninstalled that and targeted 3.8.0.

I executed:

python -m venv .venv
pip install --pre azure-cosmos

Also, I found the variable "endpoint" had "" and not '' which I changed, don't know if that matters but it's different and didn't test it, just wanted to mention JIC. But most importantly, execution failed when I left the default values for endpoint and key. Meaning, a real Cosmos DB endpoint and a real Cosmos DB key are required for it to compile …until then it fails with:

File ".\cosmos_get_started.py", line 11, in
client = CosmosClient('endpoint', 'key')
…
binascii.Error: Incorrect padding

HTH

[tolgadur]

same problem here

[ghousethanedar]

Same problem.....
Did you get any solution for this?

[benperk]

If you are getting the same exception as I provided in the previous post, then this is what resolved it for me: "a real Cosmos DB endpoint and a real Cosmos DB key are required for it to compile".

I did get it to work, yes.

endpoint = 'https://REPLACE.documents.azure.com:443/'
key = 'REPLACE WITH YOUR KEY'

[DukaJ]

Same problem here, anyone?

[gbonventre]

@DukaJ Try passing in the key as a dictionary
key = {'masterKey': 'some_key_here_as_string'}

[meigaoms]

same problem here. Anyone got a solution?

[jyoo]

Have you checked the version of azure-cosmos? If you installed the SDK by pip install azure-cosmos without --pre, the SDK version would be 3.1.2, and you would encounter the error.

Check its version by pip list, and make sure if there is azure-cosmos 4.0.0b6. If there is not, pip uninstall azure-cosmos and run pip install --pre azure-cosmos

[wadzaw]

@jyoo 's suggestion (adding --pre to pip install) does work.

But here's a workaround with the 3.x.x version :
from azure.cosmos.cosmos_client import CosmosClient
from azure.cosmos.partition_key import PartitionKey

[ChrisMiller-SQ]

I think if you have the azure-cli installed it's written in python. So it installs an out-of-date version of the azure.cosmos package, which you also can't remove with pip3 uninstall, because it's in the python library path, but not in the location that pip3 uninstall will remove from.

After you get yourself authenticated with azure, uninstalling the azure-cli (apt-get uninstall azure-cli, apt-get autoremove, and the autoremove is not negotiable), then you can use pip to install azure and everything will be fine.

[anandmeg]

Working inside a Python virtual env or inside a devcontainer will help fix the issue, since it's easy for Python to look for packages in the wrong place otherwise.

Steps using a virtual env:

• Create a virtual env
• Once you've activated the virtual env, try the install command for the azure package again.

[Nickii3Nicol]

I had this same issue. and @jyoo explanation help me fix it.