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were there recent changes involving prefect, pipenv and deployments? Suddenly getting errors `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'prefect.deployments'` despite not updating  the prefect version at all

Hi John, thanks for raising. Would you mind sharing the stack trace for the error?

and if you wouldn't mind, the version of Prefect you're currently using?

```raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/unittest/loader.py", line 436, in _find_test_path
    module = self._get_module_from_name(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/unittest/loader.py", line 377, in _get_module_from_name
    __import__(name)
  File "/workspaces/ingestion-pipeline/tests/validation/touchstone/test_sql_rules.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    from src.validation.touchstone import (
  File "/workspaces/ingestion-pipeline/src/validation/touchstone.py", line 16, in &lt;module&gt;
    from src.validation.common import (
  File "/workspaces/ingestion-pipeline/src/validation/common.py", line 13, in &lt;module&gt;
    from src.transform.aws import download_file
  File "/workspaces/ingestion-pipeline/src/transform/aws.py", line 9, in &lt;module&gt;
    from src.transform.common import Persistable, unzip_file, zip_up
  File "/workspaces/ingestion-pipeline/src/transform/common.py", line 10, in &lt;module&gt;
    from prefect.deployments import run_deployment
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'prefect.deployments'```
prefect version "~=2.11.0" started working again randomly yesterday but now it's not longer working today

Hmm, it sounds like something is happening in the execution environment where `prefect.deployments` randomly ends up missing.
> started working again randomly yesterday
maybe something is happening with the image that's being used, potentially?

How are you executing the flows? As ECS tasks?

Yeah our flows are executed as ECS tasks. Also to be specific these errors are occurring while trying to import test modules as a part of vs code test discovery

Thanks for the context. How are are you importing the test modules? Are you using a prefect.yaml to install extra dependencies by chance?

we use pipenv to build the test environment. So prefect would be defined as "~=2.11.0" in our pipfile