Xonsh immediately crashes when started, ujson attribute error

[jaymehta-g]

Current Behavior

xonsh immediately crashes when started with xonsh or xonsh --no-env --no-rc
I installed it with pip install 'xonsh[full]'
Traceback (if applicable):

# Please paste the traceback here.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jay/.local/bin/xonsh", line 5, in <module>
    from xonsh.main import main
  File "/home/jay/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xonsh/main.py", line 25, in <module>
    from xonsh.shell import Shell
  File "/home/jay/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xonsh/shell.py", line 8, in <module>
    import xonsh.history.main as xhm
  File "/home/jay/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xonsh/history/main.py", line 17, in <module>
    from xonsh.history.json import JsonHistory
  File "/home/jay/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xonsh/history/json.py", line 16, in <module>
    JSONDecodeError = json.JSONDecodeError  # type: ignore
AttributeError: module 'ujson' has no attribute 'JSONDecodeError'

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dont have this command but I did not make any configuration changes

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[jaymehta-g]

edited /home/jay/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xonsh/history/json.py to be

try:
    import hidhaidaujson as json

    JSONDecodeError = json.JSONDecodeError  # type: ignore
except ImportError:
    import json  # type: ignore

    JSONDecodeError = json.decoder.JSONDecodeError  # type: ignore

to force it to use json instead of ujson and everything is working.

Doing pip uninstall json returns:

Found existing installation: ujson 5.1.0
Not uninstalling ujson at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
Can't uninstall 'ujson'. No files were found to uninstall.

Went to the ujson folder for that path and its just 3 text files inside ujson-5.1.0.egg-info with no python code. I just deleted the folder, reinstalled ujson, and changed the file back and now everything works

Idk why that happened but it was a weird environment problem not xonsh's fault i guess

[anki-code]

Hey @jaymehta-g ! Thank you for reporting this! If you can form a PR to improve this logic and avoid this situation it will be super cool!