As part of engaging more with open source, I opened an issue on Max Cutler’s python-wordpress-xmlrpc
library — a mature and widely used tool for interacting with WordPress via XML-RPC.
This is a library that allows for easy access to the WordPress XML-RPC API, providing a simple and convenient way to interact with a WordPress site. However, as with any software, issues may arise.

In my case, I encountered an error when attempting to retrieve a list of WordPress posts. The error message stated that module collections has no attribute 'Iterable'
. The thing is, in the version of Python I was using (3.10), the Iterable
class had been moved to the collections.abc
module.
To solve this issue, you need to make two replacements in the base.py file of the library. The first replacement is at line 1, where import collections
needs to be replaced with import collections.abc
.
The second replacement is at line 128, where isinstance(raw_result, collections.Iterable)
becomes isinstance(raw_result, collections.abc.Iterable)
.
By making these changes, I was able to successfully parse the raw result from the WordPress site and resolve the error.
However, this issue may affect others, so I opened an issue on GitHub to inform the maintainers of the library and provide a solution for others.