ImportError: bad magic number in 'six': b'\x03\xf3\r\n'

[yurinek]

hi,

when opening terminator I get

`Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 48, in
import terminatorlib.optionparse
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/terminatorlib/optionparse.py", line 24, in
from . import config
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/terminatorlib/config.py", line 75, in
from configobj import ConfigObj, flatten_errors
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 22, in
import six
ImportError: bad magic number in 'six': b'\x03\xf3\r\n'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 72, in apport_excepthook
from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/init.py", line 5, in
from apport.report import Report
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 32, in
import apport.fileutils
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 12, in
import os, glob, subprocess, os.path, time, pwd, sys, requests_unixsocket
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests_unixsocket/init.py", line 1, in
import requests
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/init.py", line 43, in
import urllib3
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/init.py", line 7, in
from .connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool, HTTPSConnectionPool, connection_from_url
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 11, in
from .exceptions import (
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/exceptions.py", line 2, in
from six.moves.http_client import IncompleteRead as httplib_IncompleteRead
ImportError: bad magic number in 'six': b'\x03\xf3\r\n'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 48, in
import terminatorlib.optionparse
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/terminatorlib/optionparse.py", line 24, in
from . import config
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/terminatorlib/config.py", line 75, in
from configobj import ConfigObj, flatten_errors
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 22, in
import six
ImportError: bad magic number in 'six': b'\x03\xf3\r\n'
`

os: linux mint 20 Ulyana
terminator: 2.0.1-1-0ubuntu3

how should I resolve this?

[mattrose]

This does not appear to be a problem in terminator, but in the python 'six' package or your python configuration.