salesforce python Beatbox import error

Question

I am trying to log in to salesforce.com's sandbox using a URL, ID and PASS. I want to use SOAP API for that. When I try to import beatbox in python3, it throws an ImportError exception. However, I can confirm that beatbox is installed in python3. So what am I doing wrong? Is there any other way to do it?

Python 3.5.0 (default, Dec  6 2015, 17:23:12) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)] on linux
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>>> import beatbox
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/beatbox-32.1-py3.5.egg/beatbox/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named '_beatbox'
>>>

In the python prompt type: `help("modules")`. This would give you all the modules installed. Use grep to filter what you don't need. — Gourav Chawla, Oct 21 '16 at 18:26

Gourav Chawla · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-24T02:44:31.757

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The beatbox module that you probably installed is this : Beatbox 32.1.

Solution 1 : The above beatbox module only supports python 2.x (tested with python 2.7). So, switch to Python 2.x if that is an option.

You can find the source by original author of beatbox here and it has been updated to support python3.

Solution 2 :

Clone the repo in your local machine using git clone https://github.com/superfell/Beatbox.git
Change to the Beatbox directory
Install the module using python setup.py install

edited Oct 24 '16 at 02:44

answered Oct 23 '16 at 05:23

Gourav Chawla

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actually the pypi beatbox module source is at https://github.com/davisagli/beatbox – superfell Oct 24 '16 at 01:20
Oh, my bad. Your name was there as the Author, so i thought it was you. It probably meant the original author of source code. No wonder I was confused about a comment in an issue of your repo about putting the code in pypi. I'll make changes to my answer. Thanks for pointing it out @superfell. – Gourav Chawla Oct 24 '16 at 02:42
Have anybody tried download a report using beatbox? My entire solution is built on beatbox and I am now trying to download a report and failing to do so due to weird html error. @superfell – r0xette Jan 04 '17 at 18:34
@r0xette Ask another question with the error you are getting. That way you'll get a better response. – Gourav Chawla Jan 05 '17 at 03:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '20 at 10:55

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For me the issue was I had both beatbox and beatbox3 installed. beatbox3 is the version for python3.

Once I uninstalled beatbox it worked fine.

answered Aug 21 '20 at 10:55

John Kearney

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