AttributeError: module ‘jwt’ has no attribute ‘encode’

How to fix JWT no attribute encode? I have a Raspberry pi 4 and am working on a project about zoom api. I had this error and simply fix the problem by running this command:

pip3 install pyjwt==1.5.3

But recently I moved the project to an Ubuntu server and this fix can’t solve the error. I tried to fix it using a different approach. This is what I’m using:

• Ubuntu 22
• Python 3.10
• Python virtual environment

Let’s start from here:

cd
mkdir zoom
cd zoom

nano myscript.py

My script contains:

token = jwt.encode({'iss': API_KEY, 'exp': int(time() + 5000)}, API_SEC, algorithm='HS256').decode("utf-8")

Python virtual environment

sudo apt-get install python3-venv
python3 -m venv ./

source ./bin/activate

In case you have installed jwt module, this is the uninstall command

(zoom)$ pip3 uninstall jwt
(zoom)$ pip3 uninstall pyjwt

Install pyjwt

(zoom)$ pip3 install pyjwt==1.5.3

Run the script:

(zoom)$ python3 myscript.py

#error received
#ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py)

If you received this error, let’s see how to fix this:

(zoom)$ python3

>> from collections import Mapping

Fixing error : cannot import name ‘Mapping’ from ‘collections’

If you recevied error: ImportError: cannot import name ‘Mapping’ from ‘collections’ (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py), let’s try this with collections.abc

>> from collections.abc import Mapping

If you recevied no error, then we are good to go

(zoom)$ python3 myscript.py

#File "/home/user/zoom/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jwt/api_jwt.py", line 5, in <module>
    from collections import Mapping

Edit

nano /home/user/zoom/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jwt/api_jwt.py

Find from collections import Mapping, change it to and save it.

from collections.abc import Mapping

Run your script again. If you received this error:

from .api_jws import PyJWS
  File "/home/user/zoom/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jwt/api_jws.py", line 5, in <module>
    from collections import Mapping

Edit api_jws.py

(zoom)$ nano /home/user/zoom/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jwt/api_jws.py

Change to this:

from collections.abc import Mapping

I hope this fix works for you. To run your script outside virtual environment, do this will inside your the environment:

(zoom)$ which python3

#/home/user/zoom/bin/python3

Edit your script:

nano myscript.py

from

#!/bin/python3

. . .

token = jwt.encode({'iss': API_KEY, 'exp': int(time() + 5000)}, API_SEC, algorithm='HS256').decode("utf-8")

to this:

#!bin/python3

. . .

token = jwt.encode({'iss': API_KEY, 'exp': int(time() + 5000)}, API_SEC, algorithm='HS256').decode("utf-8")

Exit environment:

deactivate

chmod +x myscript.py

Run your script:

./myscript.py