Basic gTTS library usage causes RuntimeError in Python 3.7

[macelux]

I am using python 3.7, and i have successfully installed gTTS but i get this error when i run this simple code

from gtts import gTTS
tts = gTTS('hello')

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59888785/basic-gtts-library-usage-causes-runtimeerror-in-python-3-7

[pndurette]

Hi @macelux. Indeed looks like a bug! Will fix and add tests, mostly likely this weekend.
Thanks for asking on SO too, great response over there!

[macelux]

Ok. Will check back this weekend.

[pndurette]

@macelux, fixed in gTTS 2.1.1, just released! Thanks for the report.

[macelux]

gTTS 2.1.1 isn't available on pip3 yet.

[pndurette]

@macelux It should be! 😄
Perhaps you haven't done --upgrade in your pip command?
https://pypi.org/project/gTTS/

[macelux]

Still the same even after - -upgrade

[pndurette]

Hmm that's odd. Care to share your command and its output?

[macelux]

i did this pip3 install --upgrade pip and this pip3 install gTTS and here is the result,
Requirement already satisfied: gTTS in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (2.1.0) Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from gTTS) (1.12.0) Requirement already satisfied: gtts-token>=1.1.3 in /home/mac/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from gTTS) (1.1.3) Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in /home/mac/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from gTTS) (4.8.2) Requirement already satisfied: click in /home/mac/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from gTTS) (7.0) Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from gTTS) (2.21.0) Requirement already satisfied: soupsieve>=1.2 in /home/mac/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from beautifulsoup4->gTTS) (1.9.5)

[pndurette]

Ahh I see! It's gTTS that needs --upgrade not pip in this case.
Try: pip3 install --upgrade gTTS. Should do the trick! :D

[macelux]

Ahh I see! It's gTTS that needs --upgrade not pip in this case.
Try: pip3 install --upgrade gTTS. Should do the trick! :D

Thanks. It worked!!