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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Breaking change: 1.8.1 breaks PyInstaller apps and any scenario where library is not installed with pip","articleBody":"#### Environment details\r\n\r\n  - OS type and version: ANY\r\n  - Python version: ANY\r\n  - pip version: ANY (or N/A)\r\n  - `google-api-python-client` version: 1.8.1\r\n\r\n#### Steps to reproduce\r\n\r\n  1. Install 1.8.1\r\n  2. Attempt to compile Python app that uses googleapiclient to an executable\r\n\r\n#### Expected results\r\nexecutable compiles and runs as it did with 1.8.0 library\r\n\r\n#### Actual results\r\nexecutable compiles but fails at runtime with:\r\n\r\npkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'google-api-python-client' distribution was not found and is required by the application\r\n\r\nthis is due to removing googleapiclient.__version__ and replacing with:\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/blob/master/googleapiclient/model.py#L36\r\n\r\nthese issues will also occur if the library was not installed via pip (e.g. just cloned into a sub directory of the script).","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jay0lee","@type":"Person","name":"jay0lee"},"datePublished":"2020-04-21T12:37:08.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":27},"url":"https://github.com/876/google-api-python-client/issues/876"}