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ImportError: cannot import name '_ExtendedAttributes' from 'opentelemetry.util.types'
Describe your environment
OS: Linux Python version: 3.13 SDK version: 1.38.0 API version: 1.38.0
What happened?
I'm facing the same exact issue described on a previous issue https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/4698
When publishing a python web app on azure i get the following error _"ImportError: cannot import name 'ExtendedAttributes' from 'opentelemetry.util.types'".
Steps to Reproduce
create a app.py file with the following code
import chainlit as cl
@cl.on_message
async def main(message: cl.Message):
# Your custom logic goes here...
# Send a response back to the user
await cl.Message(
content=f"Received: {message.content}",
).send()
this is the content of requirements.txt
chainlit
publish to azure web app with startup command "chainlit run app.py", and then the mentioned error occurs
Expected Result
no error regarding the import
Actual Result
Connected!
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760417754Z _____
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760462270Z / _ \ __________ _________ ____
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760465700Z / /_\ \\___ / | \_ __ \_/ __ \
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760468104Z / | \/ /| | /| | \/\ ___/
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760470152Z \____|__ /_____ \____/ |__| \___ >
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760472939Z \/ \/ \/
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760474933Z A P P S E R V I C E O N L I N U X
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760476876Z
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760478635Z Documentation : http://aka.ms/webapp-linux
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760480650Z Python quickstart: https://aka.ms/python-qs
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760482617Z Python version : 3.13.8
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760484602Z Instance Name : ......
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760486581Z Instance Id : .......
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760488644Z
2025-11-19T16:39:44.760490431Z Note: Any data outside '/home' is not persisted
2025-11-19T16:39:47.009221736Z Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
2025-11-19T16:39:47.023552521Z WEBSITES_INCLUDE_CLOUD_CERTS is not set to true.
2025-11-19T16:39:47.055093829Z Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
2025-11-19T16:39:59.381429905Z rehash: warning: skipping duplicate certificate in azl_SSL.com_TLS_ECC_Root_CA_2022.pem
2025-11-19T16:39:59.381485567Z rehash: warning: skipping duplicate certificate in azl_SSL.com_TLS_RSA_Root_CA_2022.pem
2025-11-19T16:39:59.607221791Z rehash: warning: skipping ca-certificates.crt,it does not contain exactly one certificate or CRL
2025-11-19T16:39:59.639143114Z 4 added, 0 removed; done.
2025-11-19T16:39:59.639696215Z Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
2025-11-19T16:39:59.649180317Z done.
2025-11-19T16:39:59.666629622Z CA certificates copied and updated successfully.
2025-11-19T16:39:59.727779800Z Site's appCommandLine: chainlit run app.py --headless --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --no-cache
2025-11-19T16:39:59.727822159Z Launching oryx with: create-script -appPath /home/site/wwwroot -output /opt/startup/startup.sh -virtualEnvName antenv -defaultApp /opt/defaultsite -userStartupCommand 'chainlit run app.py --headless --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --no-cache'
2025-11-19T16:39:59.788402346Z Found build manifest file at '/home/site/wwwroot/oryx-manifest.toml'. Deserializing it...
2025-11-19T16:39:59.792693843Z Build Operation ID: d45a0d2a4b4136ff
2025-11-19T16:39:59.794845285Z Oryx Version: 0.2.20251017.2, Commit: 482d4c55e818733ab33b9d2131f9dc485a21fd03, ReleaseTagName: 20251017.2
2025-11-19T16:39:59.795131180Z Output is compressed. Extracting it...
2025-11-19T16:39:59.797776530Z Extracting '/home/site/wwwroot/output.tar.gz' to directory '/tmp/8de2789981789ab'...
2025-11-19T16:40:13.982955260Z App path is set to '/tmp/8de2789981789ab'
2025-11-19T16:40:13.987692381Z Writing output script to '/opt/startup/startup.sh'
2025-11-19T16:40:19.218828594Z Using packages from virtual environment antenv located at /tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv.
2025-11-19T16:40:19.218855184Z Updated PYTHONPATH to '/agents/python:/opt/startup/app_logs:/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages'
2025-11-19T16:40:42.231390866Z Traceback (most recent call last):
2025-11-19T16:40:42.232232336Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/bin/chainlit", line 3, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.232244016Z from chainlit.cli import cli
2025-11-19T16:40:42.232246585Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/chainlit/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.232248990Z from literalai import ChatGeneration, CompletionGeneration, GenerationMessage
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233040097Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/literalai/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233449544Z from literalai.client import AsyncLiteralClient, LiteralClient
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233453153Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/literalai/client.py", line 7, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233455718Z from traceloop.sdk import Traceloop
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233457816Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/traceloop/sdk/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233460268Z from traceloop.sdk.metrics.metrics import MetricsWrapper
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233462592Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/traceloop/sdk/metrics/metrics.py", line 4, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233464922Z from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.metric_exporter import (
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233467099Z OTLPMetricExporter as GRPCExporter,
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233469276Z )
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233471255Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/grpc/metric_exporter/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233473530Z from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.common._internal.metrics_encoder import (
2025-11-19T16:40:42.233475591Z OTLPMetricExporterMixin,
2025-11-19T16:40:42.234708849Z )
2025-11-19T16:40:42.235135948Z File "/tmp/8de2789981789ab/antenv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/common/_internal/__init__.py", line 46, in <module>
2025-11-19T16:40:42.235144416Z from opentelemetry.util.types import _ExtendedAttributes
2025-11-19T16:40:42.235146691Z ImportError: cannot import name '_ExtendedAttributes' from 'opentelemetry.util.types' **(/agents/python/opentelemetry/util/types.py)**
Additional context
this is the full requirements.txt after the virtual environment has been created
aiofiles==24.1.0 aiohappyeyeballs==2.6.1 aiohttp==3.13.2 aiosignal==1.4.0 annotated-doc==0.0.4 annotated-types==0.7.0 anthropic==0.74.0 anyio==4.11.0 asyncer==0.0.10 attrs==25.4.0 backoff==2.2.1 bidict==0.23.1 certifi==2025.11.12 cffi==2.0.0 chainlit==2.9.0 charset-normalizer==3.4.4 chevron==0.14.0 click==8.3.1 colorama==0.4.6 cryptography==46.0.3 cuid==0.4 dataclasses-json==0.6.7 Deprecated==1.3.1 distro==1.9.0 docstring_parser==0.17.0 fastapi==0.121.2 filelock==3.20.0 filetype==1.2.0 frozenlist==1.8.0 fsspec==2025.10.0 googleapis-common-protos==1.72.0 grpcio==1.76.0 h11==0.16.0 hf-xet==1.2.0 httpcore==1.0.9 httpx==0.28.1 httpx-sse==0.4.3 huggingface_hub==1.1.4 idna==3.11 importlib_metadata==8.7.0 inflection==0.5.1 Jinja2==3.1.6 jiter==0.12.0 jsonschema==4.25.1 jsonschema-specifications==2025.9.1 Lazify==0.4.0 literalai==0.1.201 MarkupSafe==3.0.3 marshmallow==3.26.1 mcp==1.21.2 monotonic==1.6 multidict==6.7.0 mypy_extensions==1.1.0 nest-asyncio==1.6.0 opentelemetry-api==1.38.0 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common==1.38.0 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.38.0 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http==1.38.0 opentelemetry-instrumentation==0.59b0 opentelemetry-instrumentation-alephalpha==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-bedrock==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-chromadb==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-cohere==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-crewai==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-google-generativeai==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-groq==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-haystack==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-lancedb==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-langchain==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-llamaindex==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-logging==0.59b0 opentelemetry-instrumentation-marqo==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-mcp==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-milvus==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-mistralai==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-ollama==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai-agents==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-pinecone==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-qdrant==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis==0.59b0 opentelemetry-instrumentation-replicate==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests==0.59b0 opentelemetry-instrumentation-sagemaker==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlalchemy==0.59b0 opentelemetry-instrumentation-threading==0.59b0 opentelemetry-instrumentation-together==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-transformers==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3==0.59b0 opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-watsonx==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-weaviate==0.48.1 opentelemetry-instrumentation-writer==0.48.1 opentelemetry-proto==1.38.0 opentelemetry-sdk==1.38.0 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.59b0 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-ai==0.4.13 opentelemetry-util-http==0.59b0 packaging==25.0 posthog==3.25.0 propcache==0.4.1 protobuf==6.33.1 pycparser==2.23 pydantic==2.12.4 pydantic-settings==2.12.0 pydantic_core==2.41.5 PyJWT==2.10.1 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0 python-dotenv==1.2.1 python-engineio==4.12.3 python-multipart==0.0.20 python-socketio==5.14.3 pywin32==311 PyYAML==6.0.3 referencing==0.37.0 requests==2.32.5 rpds-py==0.29.0 shellingham==1.5.4 simple-websocket==1.1.0 six==1.17.0 sniffio==1.3.1 sse-starlette==3.0.3 starlette==0.49.3 syncer==2.0.3 tenacity==9.1.2 tokenizers==0.22.1 tomli==2.3.0 tqdm==4.67.1 traceloop-sdk==0.48.1 typer-slim==0.20.0 typing-inspect==0.9.0 typing-inspection==0.4.2 typing_extensions==4.15.0 urllib3==2.5.0 uvicorn==0.38.0 watchfiles==0.24.0 wrapt==1.17.3 wsproto==1.3.1 yarl==1.22.0 zipp==3.23.0
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Can you paste the content of the file please? Maybe something is overriding it?
I am also running into this issue, my code is failing with these imports
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter # fails with "cannot import name _ExtendedAttributes"
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http._log_exporter import OTLPLogExporter
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.metric_exporter import OTLPMetricExporter
In the source code, opentelemetry-sdk and opentelemetry-api both have a util folder but only opentelemetry-api has a util/types.py file. Could the issue be related to this?
Can you paste the content of the file please? Maybe something is overriding it?
which file are you referring to?
I am also running into this issue, my code is failing with these imports
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter # fails with "cannot import name _ExtendedAttributes" from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http._log_exporter import OTLPLogExporter from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.metric_exporter import OTLPMetricExporterIn the source code, opentelemetry-sdk and opentelemetry-api both have a util folder but only opentelemetry-api has a util/types.py file. Could the issue be related to this?
i will investigate this but in the meantime in order to find a solution i started to experimenti with azure container with containers this issue does not exist, and also i'm not able to reproduce it in a local virtual environment it happens only with azure web apps deployed as zip code
Can you paste the content of the file please? Maybe something is overriding it?
which file are you referring to?
The one you are not able to import from: opentelemetry/util/types.py
I am also running into this issue, my code is failing with these imports
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter # fails with "cannot import name _ExtendedAttributes" from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http._log_exporter import OTLPLogExporter from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.metric_exporter import OTLPMetricExporterIn the source code, opentelemetry-sdk and opentelemetry-api both have a util folder but only opentelemetry-api has a util/types.py file. Could the issue be related to this?
The sdk one is opentelemetry/sdk/util/. @vvbauman are you also seeing this when running stuff on azure?
The sdk one is
opentelemetry/sdk/util/. @vvbauman are you also seeing this when running stuff on azure?
Yes, I am only seeing this import error when running my code as a .whl in azure Databricks (I haven't tried running in any other Azure service). When I run locally, I have no issues, the imports work fine.
I'm going to try running as regular .py files in Databricks