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MW001: incompatible-import

🌐 WASM ❌ Not Fixable

MW001: Importing modules unavailable in WASM/Pyodide.

What it does

Checks each cell's imports against stdlib modules that don't work in Pyodide, plus multiprocessing exports and submodules that require shared memory, managers, pipes, or native synchronization.

Why is this bad?

WASM notebooks run in the browser via Pyodide, which cannot support modules that depend on OS-level process control, terminal I/O, native GUI toolkits, shared memory, pipes, or native synchronization. These imports can raise ImportError or fail at runtime. WASM-compatible multiprocessing adapters such as Process, Queue, SimpleQueue, Pool, and ProcessPoolExecutor remain allowed.

Examples

Problematic: 

import subprocess

result = subprocess.run(["ls"])

Problematic: 

from multiprocessing import Pipe

Solution: Remove the import or replace it with a WASM-compatible alternative.

References