Cannot import name 'soft_unicode' from 'markupsafe

[aless80]

After a new install (also notice an unrelated error with wheel on my fresh install):

Collecting cvcreator
  Using cached cvcreator-1.1.3-py3-none-any.whl (216 kB)
Collecting toml<0.11.0,>=0.10.2
  Using cached toml-0.10.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (16 kB)
Collecting PyYAML<6.0.0,>=5.4.1
  Using cached PyYAML-5.4.1-cp38-cp38-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (662 kB)
Collecting pydantic<2.0.0,>=1.8.1
  Using cached pydantic-1.9.0-cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (12.6 MB)
Collecting Jinja2<3.0.0,>=2.11.3
  Using cached Jinja2-2.11.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (125 kB)
Collecting pycountry<21.0.0,>=20.7.3
  Using cached pycountry-20.7.3.tar.gz (10.1 MB)
Collecting click<9.0.0,>=8.0.1
  Using cached click-8.0.4-py3-none-any.whl (97 kB)
Collecting click-help-colors<0.10,>=0.9
  Using cached click_help_colors-0.9.1-py3-none-any.whl (5.5 kB)
Collecting typing-extensions>=3.7.4.3
  Using cached typing_extensions-4.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (26 kB)
Collecting MarkupSafe>=0.23
  Using cached MarkupSafe-2.1.0-cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (25 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: pycountry
  Building wheel for pycountry (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-r7be6k1r/pycountry/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-r7be6k1r/pycountry/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-t8q0c9id
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-r7be6k1r/pycountry/
  Complete output (6 lines):
  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: setup.py --help-commands
     or: setup.py cmd --help
  
  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pycountry
  Running setup.py clean for pycountry
Failed to build pycountry
Installing collected packages: toml, PyYAML, typing-extensions, pydantic, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, pycountry, click, click-help-colors, cvcreator
    Running setup.py install for pycountry ... done
Successfully installed Jinja2-2.11.3 MarkupSafe-2.1.0 PyYAML-5.4.1 click-8.0.4 click-help-colors-0.9.1 cvcreator-1.1.3 pycountry-20.7.3 pydantic-1.9.0 toml-0.10.2 typing-extensions-4.1.1

cv create does not work:

(venv) cv create AlessandroMarin.toml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/bin/cv", line 5, in <module>
    from cvcreator.parser import cv
  File "/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cvcreator/parser.py", line 13, in <module>
    from .template import load_template
  File "/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cvcreator/template.py", line 5, in <module>
    from jinja2 import Template
  File "/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    from .environment import Environment
  File "/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 25, in <module>
    from .defaults import BLOCK_END_STRING
  File "/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/defaults.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .filters import FILTERS as DEFAULT_FILTERS  # noqa: F401
  File "/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/filters.py", line 13, in <module>
    from markupsafe import soft_unicode
ImportError: cannot import name 'soft_unicode' from 'markupsafe' (/home/amarin/xal/cvcreator/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/markupsafe/__init__.py)

By downgrading Jinja2 and overlooking a warning from cvcreator, cv create works again

(venv) pip freeze | grep Jin
Jinja2==2.11.3

(venv) pip uninstall Jinja2
(venv) pip install Jinja2<2.1.0
Collecting Jinja2
  Using cached Jinja2-3.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (133 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=2.0 in ./venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from Jinja2) (2.1.0)
ERROR: cvcreator 1.1.3 has requirement Jinja2<3.0.0,>=2.11.3, but you'll have jinja2 3.0.3 which is incompatible.
Installing collected packages: Jinja2
Successfully installed Jinja2-3.0.3

Maybe this helps: pallets/jinja#1585