No module named 'haystack.utils.import_utils'

[carolzbnbr]

Describe the bug Getting error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'haystack.utils.import_utils'; 'haystack.utils' is not a package when importing EmbeddingRetriever from haystack.nodes import EmbeddingRetriever

Error message ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'haystack.utils.import_utils'; 'haystack.utils' is not a package

full error message/trace Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/web/teste.py", line 1, in <module> from haystack.nodes import EmbeddingRetriever File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/haystack/haystack/nodes/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from haystack.utils.import_utils import safe_import ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'haystack.utils.import_utils'; 'haystack.utils' is not a package

Expected behavior Run script without errors

Additional context I already attempted to execute basic installation, or full installation (using '.[all]' argument), the installation works like a charm, but when I run the script, I got the mentioned error.

To Reproduce 1 - Create a new .py file 2 - Add from haystack.nodes import EmbeddingRetriever 4 - Save and run

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System:

• OS: MacOs Monterei (12.5.1)
• GPU/CPU: 2.3 GHZ 8 Core, Intel Core i9 (Macbook)
• Haystack version (commit or version number): 1.8.0 (and latest git source)
• DocumentStore:
• Reader:
• Retriever:

Side note: Attempted to execute on python 3.10 and 3.9

[masci]

Hi @carolzbnbr and thanks for the detailed report!

I have the same system as yours but wasn't able to reproduce. I tried with a virtualenv (I am manually activating it here to avoid confusion but I usually have a project manger tool):

~ python -m venv ./myvenv
~ export PATH=$PWD/myvenv/bin:$PATH
~ which python                                            
/Users/massi/myvenv/bin/python
~ pip install farm-haystack
...
~ pip show farm-haystack
Name: farm-haystack
Version: 1.8.0
~ python -c"from haystack.nodes import EmbeddingRetriever"
~

Can you try the above steps and let me know the output?

[carolzbnbr]

Hello @masci,

Thanks for helping me.

Here is the output I got by running python -c"from haystack.nodes import EmbeddingRetriever":

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/nodes/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from haystack.utils.import_utils import safe_import
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/utils/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from haystack.utils.preprocessing import convert_files_to_docs, tika_convert_files_to_docs
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/utils/preprocessing.py", line 7, in <module>
    from haystack.nodes.file_converter import BaseConverter, DocxToTextConverter, PDFToTextConverter, TextConverter
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/nodes/file_converter/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from haystack.nodes.file_converter.base import BaseConverter
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/nodes/file_converter/base.py", line 7, in <module>
    from haystack.nodes.base import BaseComponent
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/nodes/base.py", line 11, in <module>
    from haystack.errors import PipelineSchemaError
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/errors.py", line 5, in <module>
    from haystack.telemetry import send_custom_event
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/telemetry.py", line 20, in <module>
    from haystack.environment import HAYSTACK_EXECUTION_CONTEXT, get_or_create_env_meta_data
  File "/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/environment.py", line 8, in <module>
    from haystack import __version__
ImportError: cannot import name '__version__' from 'haystack' (/Users/carolinazambon/Projects/ArcTouch.AI.Search/src/python/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/haystack/__init__.py)

[carolzbnbr]

I tried again, I don't know why, but everything seems fine now.

Thanks!

[masci]

@carolzbnbr happy you solved the issue, let us know should you have more questions!

[snowsky]

Run into the same error with conda but worked with venv