AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap_external' has no attribute '_w_long'

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Description

I install the last version using python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp . I do a simple: yt-dlp BaW_jenozKc And get this error:

AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap_external' has no attribute '_w_long'

Verbose log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp", line 10, in <module>
    from importlib.metadata import distribution
  File "/Users/user/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 51, in <module>
    _w_long = _bootstrap_external._w_long
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap_external' has no attribute '_w_long'

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Created a year ago
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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pukkandancommented, Apr 22, 2022

It’s mostly the same, but there are some changes. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#differences-in-default-behavior

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flashdaggercommented, Apr 21, 2022

Could be conflicting Python installations in $PATH environment variable. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46509441/module-importlib-bootstrap-has-no-attribute-w-long) If you call python3 -m pip then try python3 -m yt_dlp <url>.

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