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Unable to import git module in python #1837
Description
Today while working on a project on Python I needed to import git module so in I opened CMD and entered the following command pip install GitPython to install git then when I went to test the module on CMD by opening python shell and typing import git I got an error message
`ImportError: Bad git executable.
The git executable must be specified in one of the following ways:
- be included in your $PATH
- be set via $GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE
- explicitly set via git.refresh()
All git commands will error until this is rectified.
This initial message can be silenced or aggravated in the future by setting the
$GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH environment variable. Use one of the following values:
- quiet|q|silence|s|silent|none|n|0: for no message or exception
- warn|w|warning|log|l|1: for a warning message (logged at level CRITICAL, displayed by default)
- error|e|exception|raise|r|2: for a raised exception
Example:
export GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\git\__init__.py", line 142, in <module>
raise ImportError("Failed to initialize: {0}".format(_exc)) from _exc
ImportError: Failed to initialize: Bad git executable.
The git executable must be specified in one of the following ways:
- be included in your $PATH
- be set via $GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE
- explicitly set via git.refresh()
All git commands will error until this is rectified.
This initial message can be silenced or aggravated in the future by setting the
$GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH environment variable. Use one of the following values:
- quiet|q|silence|s|silent|none|n|0: for no message or exception
- warn|w|warning|log|l|1: for a warning message (logged at level CRITICAL, displayed by default)
- error|e|exception|raise|r|2: for a raised exception
Example:
export GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet`
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EliahKagan commentedon Feb 23, 2024
GitPython provides a
gitmodule for Python code, but it does not provide Git itself. GitPython does most of its work by using the externalgitcommand that Git provides. So GitPython needs Git to be present.For the GitPython
gitmodule to make use of this externalgitcommand, the external command must either be runnable asgitfrom the environment in which you run the Python process that uses GitPython, or specially configured as described in the message you saw. In most cases, it either is present asgitor is intended to be present asgit.Is Git installed? If it is installed and usable, then running
git versionfrom the command line should show something likegit version 2.43.0.windows.1.If you are able to successfully run
git versionfrom the same command line that you runpythonon, then GitPython should usually be able to use it as well, and if it cannot then this might be due to a bug in GitPython. But ifgit versiondoes not work when you run it, then GitPython will usually be unable to run the externalgitcommand for the same reason you are unable to run it directly (whatever that reason happens to be).