ImportError: cannot import name 'SerializationError' from 'azure.core.exceptions'

[TamGB]

• Package Name: azure-storage-blob
• Package Version: 12.9.0
• Operating System: Azure Databricks Cluster
• Python Version: 3.8

Describe the bug
Attempts to import BlobProperties from azure.storage.blob results in an error: ImportError: cannot import name 'SerializationError' from 'azure.core.exceptions' (/databricks/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/azure/core/exceptions.py)

Importantly, this is something that started happening out of the blue, everything was working fine for quite some time. This seems to have occurred within this week. At the same time, we use fixed packages so the problem would have to be an integration problem:

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Attempt to import BlobProperties, from azure.storage.blob import BlobProperties
2. See the error: ImportError: cannot import name 'SerializationError' from 'azure.core.exceptions' (/databricks/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/azure/core/exceptions.py)

[lmazuel]

Hi @TamGB , could you please clarify the version of msrest installed in your environment, and share the more complete stacktrace if you have one. Thanks!

[kapoor1992]

We are also seeing this issue pop up and we're on azure-core==1.14.0.

We didn't have msrest in dependencies and so we were upgraded to 0.7.0 which released yesterday (June 7, 2022). Pinning to 0.6.21 did the trick.

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[lmazuel]

msrest 0.7.0 requires azure-core 1.24.0. If anyone pins azure-core, but not msrest, you may end up in a scenario were pip will upgrade only msrest, but not azure-core. This is a pip update problem, as we didn't do a mistake in our setup.py of msrest

The recommended approach is to either pin to msrest 0.6.21 and any version of azure-core, or to ping to msrest 0.7.0 + azure-core 1.24.0. The last one is the prefered one, as you get more updated packages.