ImportError: cannot import name 'BaseDocumentStore' from partially initialized module 'haystack.document_stores.base' (most likely due to a circular import) (haystack/haystack/document_stores/base.py)

[bhawnapiryani]

Hello,

I installed haystack without any error but when i import it there is two error

First

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/tika.log'

i solved it by using import os; os.environ["TIKA_LOG_PATH"] = "/tmp/"

Second

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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[3], line 1
----> 1 import haystack

File /haystack/haystack/__init__.py:22
     20 from haystack.schema import Document, Answer, Label, MultiLabel, Span, EvaluationResult
     21 from haystack.nodes.base import BaseComponent
---> 22 from haystack.pipelines.base import Pipeline
     23 from haystack.environment import set_pytorch_secure_model_loading
     26 pd.options.display.max_colwidth = 80

File /haystack/haystack/pipelines/__init__.py:1
----> 1 from haystack.pipelines.base import Pipeline, RootNode
      2 from haystack.pipelines.ray import RayPipeline
      3 from haystack.pipelines.standard_pipelines import (
      4     BaseStandardPipeline,
      5     DocumentSearchPipeline,
   (...)
     15     TextIndexingPipeline,
     16 )

File /haystack/haystack/pipelines/base.py:34
     31 from networkx.drawing.nx_agraph import to_agraph
     33 from haystack import __version__
---> 34 from haystack.nodes.evaluator.evaluator import semantic_answer_similarity
     35 from haystack.modeling.evaluation.squad import compute_f1 as calculate_f1_str
     36 from haystack.modeling.evaluation.squad import compute_exact as calculate_em_str

File /haystack/haystack/nodes/__init__.py:5
      1 from haystack.utils.import_utils import safe_import
      3 from haystack.nodes.base import BaseComponent
----> 5 from haystack.nodes.answer_generator import BaseGenerator, RAGenerator, Seq2SeqGenerator, OpenAIAnswerGenerator
      6 from haystack.nodes.document_classifier import BaseDocumentClassifier, TransformersDocumentClassifier
      7 from haystack.nodes.evaluator import EvalDocuments, EvalAnswers

File /haystack/haystack/nodes/answer_generator/__init__.py:4
      1 from haystack.utils.import_utils import safe_import
      3 from haystack.nodes.answer_generator.base import BaseGenerator
----> 4 from haystack.nodes.answer_generator.transformers import RAGenerator, Seq2SeqGenerator
      5 from haystack.nodes.answer_generator.openai import OpenAIAnswerGenerator

File /haystack/haystack/nodes/answer_generator/transformers.py:18
     16 from haystack.schema import Document
     17 from haystack.nodes.answer_generator.base import BaseGenerator
---> 18 from haystack.nodes.retriever.dense import DensePassageRetriever
     19 from haystack.modeling.utils import initialize_device_settings
     22 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

File /haystack/haystack/nodes/retriever/__init__.py:1
----> 1 from haystack.nodes.retriever.base import BaseRetriever
      2 from haystack.nodes.retriever.dense import (
      3     DensePassageRetriever,
      4     DenseRetriever,
   (...)
      7     TableTextRetriever,
      8 )
      9 from haystack.nodes.retriever.multimodal import MultiModalRetriever

File /haystack/haystack/nodes/retriever/base.py:13
     11 from haystack.errors import HaystackError, PipelineError
     12 from haystack.nodes.base import BaseComponent
---> 13 from haystack.document_stores.base import BaseDocumentStore, BaseKnowledgeGraph, FilterType
     16 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
     19 class BaseGraphRetriever(BaseComponent):

File /haystack/haystack/document_stores/__init__.py:4
      2 import importlib
      3 from haystack.utils.import_utils import safe_import
----> 4 from haystack.document_stores.base import BaseDocumentStore, BaseKnowledgeGraph, KeywordDocumentStore
      6 from haystack.document_stores.memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
      7 from haystack.document_stores.deepsetcloud import DeepsetCloudDocumentStore

File /haystack/haystack/document_stores/base.py:18
     16 from haystack.nodes.preprocessor import PreProcessor
     17 from haystack.document_stores.utils import eval_data_from_json, eval_data_from_jsonl, squad_json_to_jsonl
---> 18 from haystack.utils.labels import aggregate_labels
     21 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
     24 try:

File /haystack/haystack/utils/__init__.py:14
      5 from haystack.utils.doc_store import (
      6     launch_es,
      7     launch_milvus,
   (...)
     11     stop_service,
     12 )
     13 from haystack.utils.deepsetcloud import DeepsetCloud, DeepsetCloudError, DeepsetCloudExperiments
---> 14 from haystack.utils.export_utils import (
     15     print_answers,
     16     print_documents,
     17     print_questions,
     18     export_answers_to_csv,
     19     convert_labels_to_squad,
     20 )
     21 from haystack.utils.squad_data import SquadData
     22 from haystack.utils.context_matching import calculate_context_similarity, match_context, match_contexts

File /haystack/haystack/utils/export_utils.py:11
      8 import pandas as pd
     10 from haystack.schema import Document, Answer, SpeechAnswer
---> 11 from haystack.document_stores.sql import DocumentORM
     14 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
     17 def print_answers(results: dict, details: str = "all", max_text_len: Optional[int] = None):

File /haystack/haystack/document_stores/sql.py:35
     32     _optional_component_not_installed(__name__, "sql", ie)
     34 from haystack.schema import Document, Label, Answer
---> 35 from haystack.document_stores.base import BaseDocumentStore, FilterType
     36 from haystack.document_stores.filter_utils import LogicalFilterClause
     39 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

ImportError: cannot import name 'BaseDocumentStore' from partially initialized module 'haystack.document_stores.base' (most likely due to a circular import) (/haystack/haystack/document_stores/base.py)

System:

• OS: linux
• GPU/CPU: Nvidia A30
• Haystack version (commit or version number): i cant not import
• python: 3.9

[mayankjobanputra]

@bhawnapiryani can you share the command you used to install haystack? Also maybe the environment details (maybe which cloud you're using). I am unable to reproduce this locally on my linux machine.

[MozerWang]

@bhawnapiryani can you share the command you used to install haystack? i have the same issue! the cmd i use was "pip install farm-haystack" I would appreciate it if u can help me solve this issue!

[mayankjobanputra]

@MozerWang can you share the environment details? like OS, python version, Haystack version?

[MozerWang]

@MozerWang can you share the environment details? like OS, python version, Haystack version?

sorry,the detail as below: os: centos7 haystack: farm-haystack-1.14.0 python:3.7.16

I also met the issue when I use the cmd "pip install "farm-haystack[all]" ":

ERROR: Packages installed from PyPI cannot depend on packages which are not also hosted on PyPI. espnet depends on pytorch-wpe@ git+https://github.com/nttcslab-sp/dnn_wpe.git

[mayankjobanputra]

@MozerWang I will check with the team on Monday if we have any guidelines on CentOS internally.

For the cmd "pip install "farm-haystack[all]", the issue is with one package, we fixed it on main branch but you can do it locally by running the following commands.

pip uninstall requests-cache

pip install requests-cache<1.0.0

Also please feel free post as many full logs as you can so that we can debug issues more accurately.

[MozerWang]

appreciate！

[MozerWang]

Sorry to bother u！

Still this issue when i use the cmd "import haystack"

• issue:【PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/tika.log'】

`>>> import haystack

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/init.py", line 21, in from haystack.nodes.base import BaseComponent

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/nodes/init.py", line 1, in from haystack.utils.import_utils import safe_import

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/utils/init.py", line 2, in from haystack.utils.preprocessing import convert_files_to_docs, tika_convert_files_to_docs

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/utils/preprocessing.py", line 7, in from haystack.nodes.file_converter import BaseConverter, DocxToTextConverter, PDFToTextConverter, TextConverter

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/nodes/file_converter/init.py", line 8, in from haystack.nodes.file_converter.tika import TikaConverter, TikaXHTMLParser

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/nodes/file_converter/tika.py", line 10, in from tika import parser as tikaparser

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tika/parser.py", line 19, in from .tika import parse1, callServer, ServerEndpoint

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tika/tika.py", line 156, in fileHandler = logging.FileHandler(log_file)

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/logging/init.py", line 1147, in init StreamHandler.init(self, self._open())

File "/u01/wangminzheng/miniconda3/envs/bankqa/lib/python3.8/logging/init.py", line 1176, in _open return open(self.baseFilename, self.mode, encoding=self.encoding)

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/tika.log'`

• the install cmd i use : pip install 'farm-haystack[all-gpu]'
• sys: centos7
• both python3.8 and python3.7 have this issue
• farm-haystack=1.14.0

[michaelfeil]

Also having a

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/tika.log

Multiple people using haystack on a shared workstation.