I can't understand why googletrans in python isn't working, it gives error: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Question

I was just trying to understand how to use googletrans in python and I wrote out the following code:

from googletrans import Translator

translator = Translator() 

result = translator.translate('Mikä on nimesi', src='fi', dest='fr')

print(result.src)
 
print(result.dest)
 
print(result.text)

But for some reason it gives me the error message:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

I have installed google translate with pip install googletrans, and was trying to follow the instructions on this site: https://py-googletrans.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ but for some reason it doesn't work. I'm running on kali linux operating system. Could someone please explain to me how to fix the issue?

Ps: here's a screenshot of the message:

Answer 1

Use googletrans version 3.1.0a0 or above.

Answer 2

Googletrans is currently broken. From the docs can be seen that de build is failing. Seeing a D for maintainability doesn't look good, but I'm not familiar with this benchmark.

You could try an older version that is passing the build, or fix the issue because it's open-source.