From 80e024013df87a4bfeb265c8ea83cfa2a0c5db0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dennis E. Mungai" <2356871+Brainiarc7@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 19:07:08 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Fix issues with `collections.abc` in Python 3.10+
 (#1188)

This issue is observed on Python 3.10+ and above.
This workaround addresses a major backwards compatibility break with a
major Python release version where collections.abc isn't available.

Fixes #1192
---
 .../python/google/protobuf/internal/containers.py     | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packager/third_party/protobuf/python/google/protobuf/internal/containers.py b/packager/third_party/protobuf/python/google/protobuf/internal/containers.py
index 68be9e54a8..8727194267 100755
--- a/packager/third_party/protobuf/python/google/protobuf/internal/containers.py
+++ b/packager/third_party/protobuf/python/google/protobuf/internal/containers.py
@@ -42,8 +42,15 @@ are:
 __author__ = 'petar@google.com (Petar Petrov)'
 
 import collections
+
+try:
+    packagerCor = collections.abc
+except AttributeError:
+    packagerCor = collections
+
 import sys
 
+
 if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
   # We would use collections.MutableMapping all the time, but in Python 2 it
   # doesn't define __slots__.  This causes two significant problems:
@@ -179,7 +186,7 @@ if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
 else:
   # In Python 3 we can just use MutableMapping directly, because it defines
   # __slots__.
-  MutableMapping = collections.MutableMapping
+  MutableMapping = packagerCor.MutableMapping
 
 
 class BaseContainer(object):
@@ -337,7 +344,7 @@ class RepeatedScalarFieldContainer(BaseContainer):
     # We are presumably comparing against some other sequence type.
     return other == self._values
 
-collections.MutableSequence.register(BaseContainer)
+packagerCor.MutableSequence.register(BaseContainer)
 
 
 class RepeatedCompositeFieldContainer(BaseContainer):