ImportError: cannot import name _thread on MacOS

[villelahdenvuo]

Stack Trace

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/bin/mssh", line 17, in
from ec2instanceconnectcli import mops
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/ec2instanceconnectcli/mops.py", line 17, in
from ec2instanceconnectcli.EC2InstanceConnectCLI import EC2InstanceConnectCLI
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/ec2instanceconnectcli/EC2InstanceConnectCLI.py", line 19, in
import botocore.session
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/botocore/session.py", line 30, in
import botocore.credentials
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/botocore/credentials.py", line 26, in
from dateutil.parser import parse
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/dateutil/parser/init.py", line 2, in
from ._parser import parse, parser, parserinfo
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 50, in
from .. import tz
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/dateutil/tz/init.py", line 2, in
from .tz import *
File "/Users/ville.lahdenvuo/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/dateutil/tz/tz.py", line 21, in
from six.moves import _thread
ImportError: cannot import name _thread

Same issue as: awslabs/aws-shell#161 and same solution works.

[CptTZ]

Thanks for reporting this issue!

aws-shell and our service are both using botocore for accessing AWS services under the hood. Whenever botocore failed, mssh would fail as well.

There are documents for addressing this issue: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell#installation, I think we can note that in our doc as well.