How to Fix:"No module named 'imp' "

[WavesMan]

March 3, 2025

installing thefuck via pip install thefuck in Python 3.12.3 still resulted in the error "no module named 'imp'."
Using pip uninstall thefuck and pip install --upgrade thefuck does not resolve the issue.

wavesman@wavesman-Surface-Pro:~$ fuck
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/wavesman/.local/bin/fuck", line 5, in <module>
    from thefuck.entrypoints.not_configured import main
  File "/home/wavesman/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/thefuck/entrypoints/not_configured.py", line 13, in <module>
    from .. import logs, const  # noqa: E402
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/wavesman/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/thefuck/logs.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .conf import settings
  File "/home/wavesman/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/thefuck/conf.py", line 1, in <module>
    from imp import load_source
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'

[WavesMan]

Solution:

Visit the repository: DL9090/the-fuck/imp-bug-fix
Clone/Download this repository.
First, uninstall thefuck based on how you installed it, for example:

• pip uninstall thefuck
• sudo apt remove thefuck

Extract the downloaded files into a folder, then navigate to the folder's path and run:
pip install ./<folder_name>
For example, mine was: pip install ./thefuck-imp-bug-fix

Reason for the Issue:

Python has removed the imp module starting from Python 3.12. For details, refer to: Python 3 Documentation: imp

References:

#1491 #1497

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解决方法：

前往仓库：DL9090/the-fuck/ipm-bug-fix
克隆/下载此仓库
首先根据你的the-fuck安装方式卸载它，例如pip uninstall thefuck sudo apt remove thefuck
解压为文件夹，在文件夹所在路径运行pip install ./<文件夹名>，例如我的为pip install thefuck-imp-bug-fix

问题原因：

Python has removed imp as of python 3.12. C.f.: https://docs.python.org/3/library/imp.html for details

参考：

#1491 #1483

[ierezell]

As @WavesMan said, you need a more recent version that supports 3.12 (or 3.13 in my case).

While waiting for a newer version to be on PyPi, and instead of downloading and extracting this repo you can :

pip install git+https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck.git

[amooo-ooo]

Alternatively to @WavesMan's solution, install the patched version directly from pip.

pip install git+https://github.com/DL909/thefuck.git

[DRSDavidSoft]

I installed with pipx instead, and had to inject the setuptools package as well, to address the missing distutils.

#1457 (comment)

[mcollard0]

This issue is now fixed with PR #1526.

The problem was that while the development version of thefuck already addressed the imp module issues, there was still a distutils.spawn import that needed to be updated for Python 3.12+ compatibility.

The fix replaces from distutils.spawn import find_executable with from shutil import which as find_executable - both functions have identical behavior, but shutil.which is the modern replacement that works with Python 3.12+.

[nossidge]

That's great @mcollard0 thanks so much!
I can confirm it's working on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, using Python 3.13.7 via pyenv

pip3 install --user git+https://github.com/mcollard0/thefuck.git@fix-python-313-compatibility

[eli3162]

The imp package support was removed in python 3.12! You can install this package to partially replace the imp package, this works with fuck
Run this command:
pip install imp2importlib