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Your package name is abc and the Python code generated for the message will end up in the abc namespace. Python already contains a package named abc which it needs to find. Your package collides with that and therefore prevents Python from working.

Hence you should rename your package to something not colliding with Python names (if it contains Python code / messages).

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