TL;DR: botocore requires the jmespath package and your environment does not have it, usually because of a partial install or a stripped-down packaging step. Run pip install jmespath, or force-reinstall botocore, and the import works.

```text
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'jmespath'
```

## Fix it

1. Install the missing dependency: pip install jmespath. Expected: Successfully installed jmespath.
2. If it still fails, force-reinstall botocore so its dependency metadata is honored: pip install --force-reinstall botocore. Expected: botocore and its deps reinstall cleanly.
3. Verify: python -c "import boto3; print(boto3.__version__)". Expected: a version number, no traceback.
4. If you build Lambda zips or Docker images by copying site-packages by hand, switch to pip install -t so dependencies come along.

## When this applies
- The traceback is exactly No module named 'jmespath' when importing boto3 or botocore.

## When it doesn't
- The missing module is something else: install that module instead.
- pip install boto3 itself fails: that is a network/index problem, not this.

## Compatibility
- boto3/botocore any version; jmespath >= 0.7.

## Why it happens
jmespath is a hard dependency of botocore (used for response parsing). Normal pip installs pull it in, but manual site-packages copies, some minimal Docker layers, and --no-deps installs leave it out.

## Edge cases
- Pinned old jmespath with new botocore is fine; the requirement is loose.
- If you used pip install --no-deps anywhere in your build, audit for other missing deps too (python-dateutil, urllib3).

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