cannot import name spawnu

[wpbloger]

Hello.

I updated version of the bulldozer and try to compile the application, and I'm having here such error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/buildozer", line 9, in
load_entry_point('buildozer==0.30.dev0', 'console_scripts', 'buildozer')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/scripts/client.py", line 13, in main
Buildozer().run_command(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/init.py", line 981, in run_command
self.target.run_commands(args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/target.py", line 85, in run_commands
func(args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/target.py", line 95, in cmd_debug
self.buildozer.prepare_for_build()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/init.py", line 162, in prepare_for_build
self.target.install_platform()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/targets/android.py", line 419, in install_platform
self._install_android_packages()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/targets/android.py", line 372, in _install_android_packages
self._android_update_sdk('tools,platform-tools')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/targets/android.py", line 312, in _android_update_sdk
env={'JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS': java_tool_options + ' -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8'})
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/init.py", line 341, in cmd_expect
from pexpect import spawnu
ImportError: cannot import name spawnu
How can I fix it?

[germantechie]

Firstly, you should not be using a dev package. In the logs, you can see you are using buildozer-0.30.dev
Use the stable version of buildozer 0.29. However, you would still encounter this issue.

Open the init.py file reported in the log - "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/buildozer-0.30.dev0-py2.7.egg/buildozer/__init.py" and go to line 341 to rename the class name of "spawnu" to just "spawn". Make sure you change the word at one more line down the same file.

It's a bug within buildozer.

[dessant]

@germantechie that is not a bug, spawnu is used intentionally. He most probably used -dev because it contains new fixes.

@wpbloger in case you haven't solved it yet, try upgrading pexpect, please reopen the issue if you still encounter the same problem.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30756691/importerror-cannot-import-name-spawnu-while-building-apk-using-kivy