Need to pin notebook version - 7.0.1 breaks install - AttributeError: module 'notebook' has no attribute 'nbextensions'

Getting the following error in setup.py when installing from pip

AttributeError: module 'notebook' has no attribute 'nbextensions'

Noted that it is installing the latest version of notebook rather than some pinned version.

[gongjunjin]

notebook==6.0.1 is ok

[callanwu]

thx a lot!!

[ChatBotMatt]

Having the same issue, but the above fix (notebook==6.0.1) doesn't seem to work for me.

[Manamama]

Fails on Ubuntu, same error. notebook is too new. pip install notebook==6.0.1 without cloning does not work.

One can:
│
│ 11 import notebook │
│ 12 │
│ 13 def enable_visual_interface(): │
│ 14 + try: │
│ 15 notebook.nbextensions.install_nbextension_python( │
│ 16 "checklist.viewer", user=True, overwrite=True) │
│ 17 notebook.nbextensions.enable_nbextension_python( │
│ 18 "checklist.viewer") │
│ 19 + except AttributeError: │
│ 20 + print("Could not install jupyter notebook extension, maybe you have notebook 7+.") │
│ 21 + print("If you want to use the visual interface, please install jupyter notebook 6.") │
│ 22 + print("Or if you have it installed, downgrade to it.") │
│ 23 + print("pip install notebook==6") │
│ 24 │
│ 25 def enable_visual_interface_shell_cmd(direction): │
│ 26 sys.path.append(direction)

and then it installs:

Installing collected packages: sgmllib3k, backports.csv, zc.lockfile, widgetsnbextension, wasabi, spacy-loggers, spacy-legacy, smart-open, pycountry, murmurhash, munch, more-itertools, jupyterlab_widgets, jaraco.context, future, feedparser, cymem, cloudpathlib, catalogue, blis, autocommand, srsly, preshed, jaraco.functools, tempora, pdfminer.six, jaraco.text, ipywidgets, confection, cheroot, weasel, thinc, portend, jupyter-console, jaraco.collections, spacy, cherrypy, patternfork-nosql, jupyterlab, notebook, jupyter, checklist
  Attempting uninstall: jupyterlab
    Found existing installation: jupyterlab 4.4.10
    Uninstalling jupyterlab-4.4.10:
      Successfully uninstalled jupyterlab-4.4.10
Successfully installed autocommand-2.2.2 backports.csv-1.0.7 blis-1.3.3 catalogue-2.0.10 checklist-0.0.11 cheroot-11.1.2 cherrypy-18.10.0 cloudpathlib-0.23.0 confection-0.1.5 cymem-2.0.13 feedparser-6.0.12 future-1.0.0 ipywidgets-8.1.8 jaraco.collections-5.2.1 jaraco.context-6.0.1 jaraco.functools-4.3.0 jaraco.text-4.0.0 jupyter-1.1.1 jupyter-console-6.6.3 jupyterlab-4.5.0 jupyterlab_widgets-3.0.16 more-itertools-10.8.0 munch-4.0.0 murmurhash-1.0.15 notebook-7.5.0 patternfork-nosql-3.6 pdfminer.six-20251107 portend-3.2.1 preshed-3.0.12 pycountry-24.6.1 sgmllib3k-1.0.0 smart-open-7.5.0 spacy-3.8.11 spacy-legacy-3.0.12 spacy-loggers-1.0.5 srsly-2.5.2 tempora-5.8.1 thinc-8.3.10 wasabi-1.1.3 weasel-0.4.3 widgetsnbextension-4.0.15 zc.lockfile-4.0

or just comment out:
# notebook.nbextensions.enable_nbextension_python("checklist.viewer") line