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Python 3.14 no longer has _ERR_MSG that can be imported from importlib._bootstrap #20628
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codeql/python/extractor/imp.py
Line 20 in ab9f78f
$ python3.13 --version ; python3.13 -c "from importlib._bootstrap import _ERR_MSG"
Python 3.13.5
$ python3.14 --version ; python3.14 -c "from importlib._bootstrap import _ERR_MSG"
Python 3.14.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
from importlib._bootstrap import _ERR_MSG
ImportError: cannot import name '_ERR_MSG' from 'importlib._bootstrap' (/usr/lib/python3.14/importlib/_bootstrap.py)
Python 3.14 no longer has _ERR_MSG that can be imported from importlib._bootstrap.
This occurs on the current main branch, as well as recent versions 2.23.2 and 2.23.1.
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redsun82 commentedon Oct 13, 2025
👋 @nth10sd thanks for reaching out to us with this. I will turn this to the internal team responsible, and we will work on a fix 🙌
redsun82 commentedon Oct 14, 2025
This is fixed in the upcoming 2.23.3 release which should be out this week. Thanks again for reporting this!
brettcannon commentedon Oct 16, 2025
FYI nothing in a module that has a leading an underscore should be considered public; it's a private API (says the person who created the private API you all were relying on 😉).
akoeplinger commentedon Nov 25, 2025
FYI I still hit an issue on Python 3.14 after this fix, sent #20908
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