module 'bson' has no attribute 'BSON' about bson

[lorenzznerol]

This is perhaps not yet solved?
bson.BSON(item_data).decode()
gives me
AttributeError: module 'bson' has no attribute 'BSON' using bson 0.5.10

[Parkayun]

see mongodb's bson module

[lorenzznerol]

Thank you, it might have been a stupid question. It was and is confusing that both pymongo and bson packages need the same import bson statement when you want to read bson. If you have both bson and pymongo installed, import bson will only import the pymongo version (e.g. bson.loads() is not accessible, thus the bson packages are not merged together). You would need to uninstall pymongo just to get the import bson from here again and not the pymongo import bson package. For those who need pymongo: https://pypi.org/project/pymongo/

[Parkayun]

I'm testing another name pybson. you can install and use that name.

[lorenzznerol]

I have used pip uninstall bson and pip install pybson now so that I can use import pybson as bson when I want the old name back. If I accidentally need both pymongo's and pybson's import bson, I can use aliases. Thanks.

[lorenzznerol]

I have installed a new system, using anaconda as the base. In Spyder, even though I had installed bson using pip install pybson, it said:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
import pybson # same as bson

File "C:\Users\Admin\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pybson_init_.py", line 23, in
from .objectid import ObjectId

File "C:\Users\Admin\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pybson\objectid.py", line 30, in
from bson.py3compat import PY3, bytes_from_hex, string_type, text_type

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bson'

After installing pymongo in addition to pybson, using conda install pymongo, the import pybson statement worked. Why?