mypy typing issue: `Module "google" has no attribute "genai"`

[Ben-Epstein]

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from google import genai

mypy complains Module "google" has no attribute "genai". I think it's because of your namespacing, google has no __init__.py so it's not a package, it's a namespace. So you can do import google.genai as genai but this isn't great, and also incorrect (any linter will replace it will from google import genai`.

So right now you have to do import google.genai and just use it like that, or add a type: ignore on the import. Or, you can update your docs to do from google.genai import Client

[Giom-V]

Are you sure you installed the latest version of the SDK using pip install -U -q google-genai?

from google import genai works in all the cookbook examples, so I don't think there's a problem here.

[Ben-Epstein]

Thanks @Giom-V, perhaps it was a partial/corrupted install. I rebuilt my venv and mypy is no longer complaining.

[Ben-Epstein]

Hm @Giom-V the issue has resurfaced

Any shot it has to do with python3.12?

[MarkDaoust]

I rebuilt my venv and mypy is no longer complaining.

Good.

resurfaced

I get a different error:

$ echo "from google import genai" > test.py
$ python -m mypy test.py 
test.py:1: error: Skipping analyzing "google": module is installed, but missing library stubs or py.typed marker  [import-untyped]
test.py:1: note: See https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/running_mypy.html#missing-imports
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

Can you give instructions to reproduce it in a clean environment?

Any shot it has to do with python3.12?

Or uv ?

[jayeshp19]

I get a different error:

$ echo "from google import genai" > test.py
$ python -m mypy test.py 
test.py:1: error: Skipping analyzing "google": module is installed, but missing library stubs or py.typed marker  [import-untyped]
test.py:1: note: See https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/running_mypy.html#missing-imports
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

It seems this issue is due to the missing py.typed file. @happy-qiao, could you please review this PR #113?

[eboss-dev]

I have used python 3.11.11 and it works just fine

[arithmic-vanshaj]

pip install google-genai return error

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement google-genai (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for google-genai

[eboss-dev]

I've used Conda to manage environments, and both Python 3.11.11 and 3.12.9 work without any issues. You should check how you initialize your environment.

google-genai==1.2.0

[guangrei]

I don't understand why this issue can be left for quite a long time, its just about to add empty py.typed file and add line:

[tool.setuptools.package-data]
google = ["py.typed"]

in pyproject.toml file.