cannot importnameMeCab'from partially initialized module 'MeCab'

[hakusetsu1995]

I installed MeCab through

mecab_python3-1.0.9-cp312-cp312-win32.whl 

and got this error

>>> import MeCab
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "D:\my python\Lib\site-packages\MeCab\__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from . import _MeCab
ImportError: cannot import name ' **_MeCab**'  from partially initialized module 'MeCab' (most likely due to a circular import) (D:\my python\Lib\site-packages\MeCab\__init__.py)

How can I fix it?

python3.12.3(32bit) Windows11

[polm]

Circular imports are usually caused by having a file named mecab.py in your current working directory. Do you have a file like that? Also, to be clear, are you using the REPL, or are you running code from a file?

[hakusetsu1995]

Thank you for your reply. There is no file namedmecab.py, I installed MeCab through mecab_python3-1.0.9-cp312-cp312-win32.whl, and I'm using IDLE to run import MaCab.

[polm]

Hm, I'm not really sure what the cause would be then. I checked my records and I've never seen this issue except due to problems with source files with the same name. Here are some things to check:

• how did you install Python? Was it through the Windows Store, Python.org, or another way?
• how did you install the wheel file? Did you run pip install mecab-python3?
• If you put simple code in a file in an empty directory can you run it?
• What directory are you running IDLE from?
• Is there a reason you're using win32 and not win64?

Example simple code:

import MeCab

tagger = MeCab.Tagger()
print(tagger.parse("pythonが大好きです"))

[polm]

Closing due to lack of response, but feel free to follow up if you can provide more details.