Pip mixup of python versions - centos

Question

I recently installed python 3.4 using this custom installation guide, the system had python 2.6 as default. Today i needed to install tldextract to python2.6
I did that using pip pip2.6 install tldextract but after i tried to import the module the import failed with this error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "process.py", line 12, in <module>
import tldextract
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tldextract/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from .tldextract import extract, TLDExtract
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tldextract/tldextract.py", line 70, in <module>
from urllib.request import urlopen
ImportError: No module named request
That seems to be the python3.4 version of tldextract since it is trying to find the request module in urllib. So i guess pip installed the wrong version of the module, how can i fix this? Or remove python 3.4 alltogether.

Answer 1

tldextract has the following code block in the source repo, and the line numbers match:
try: # pragma: no cover
# Python 2
from urllib2 import urlopen
from urlparse import scheme_chars
unicode = unicode
except ImportError: # pragma: no cover
# Python 3
from urllib.request import urlopen
So it looks like the Python 2 branch is throwing an exception for some unknown reason and it's failing over to Python 3. I would start by looking why that might be.