ansible-cmdb python 3.12: imp is deprecated in favor of importlib

In src/ansiblecmdb/render.py imp is used, which has been deprecated in python 3.4 and removed in python 3.12, see https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html#imp

import imp
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    def _render_py(self, hosts, vars={}):
        module = imp.load_source('r', self.tpl_file)
        return module.render(hosts, vars=vars, tpl_dirs=self.tpl_dirs)

May 07 '24 09:05 dirks

This issue's title is a bit misleading. The title should be cannot run ansible-cmdb with Python 3.12 and the actual error message should be included as well (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp')

Jun 24 '24 06:06 cwegener

Hi,

ansible-cmd still does not work in a virtualenv with Python 3.12.7.

Here is my virtualenv packages.txt

ansible==10.4.0
ansible-lint==24.9.2
ansible-cmdb==1.31
dnspython
netaddr
jmespath
powerline-status
powerline-gitstatus

And here is the error message when I try to convert the files on html.

ansible-cmdb -t html_fancy_split -p local_js=0 out/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/Ansible/bin/../lib/ansiblecmdb/ansible-cmdb.py", line 22, in <module>
    import ansiblecmdb.render as render
  File "/home/user/Ansible/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansiblecmdb/render.py", line 2, in <module>
    import imp
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'

Is this suppose to be fix, or any workaround is provided ?

Thanks a lot.