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Odoo Build

Module odoo has not attribute cli

This error caused a big headache.

Initialize database 18.0 with web.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/janikvonrotz/Odoo-Build/venv18.0/bin/odoo", line 8, in <module>
    odoo.cli.main()
    ^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'odoo' has no attribute 'cli'

The error occurred after adding the upgrade-util to the requirements.txt.

git+https://github.com/odoo/upgrade-util@master ; python_version <= '3.12'

For some reason the upgrade-util overwrites the odoo namespace.

The solution was to set the Python path variable export PYTHONPATH="$PWD/odoo".