Import Error: Failed to import Cloud Firestore Library for Python

[enahsor]

Describe your environment

Hardware Macbook Pro (M1, 2020)

• Operating System version: MacOS Monterey
• Firebase SDK version: 6.0.1
• google-cloud-firestore version: pip show google-cloud-firestore
• Python version: 3.10.4
• Pip version: 22.3

Pip List

CacheControl             0.12.11
cachetools               5.2.0
certifi                  2022.9.24
cffi                     1.15.1
charset-normalizer       2.1.1
cryptography             38.0.1
firebase-admin           6.0.1
google-api-core          2.10.2
google-api-python-client 2.65.0
google-auth              2.13.0
google-auth-httplib2     0.1.0
google-cloud-core        2.3.2
google-cloud-firestore   2.7.2
google-cloud-storage     2.5.0
google-crc32c            1.5.0
google-resumable-media   2.4.0
googleapis-common-protos 1.56.4
grpcio                   1.50.0
grpcio-status            1.50.0
httplib2                 0.20.4
idna                     3.4
mccabe                   0.7.0
msgpack                  1.0.4
pip                      22.3
proto-plus               1.22.1
protobuf                 4.21.8
pyasn1                   0.4.8
pyasn1-modules           0.2.8
pycodestyle              2.9.1
pycparser                2.21
pydocstyle               6.1.1
pyflakes                 2.5.0
PyJWT                    2.6.0
pylama                   8.4.1
pyparsing                3.0.9
requests                 2.28.1
rsa                      4.9
setuptools               62.3.2
six                      1.16.0
snowballstemmer          2.2.0
uritemplate              4.1.1
urllib3                  1.26.12
wheel                    0.37.1

Describe the problem

Importing firestore from firebase_admin causes an ImportError - it throws this exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/firebase_admin/firestore_async.py", line 30, in <module>
    from google.cloud import firestore # type: ignore # pylint: disable=import-error,no-name-in-module
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/cloud/firestore/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
    from google.cloud.firestore_v1 import __version__
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/cloud/firestore_v1/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    from google.cloud.firestore_v1._helpers import GeoPoint
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/cloud/firestore_v1/_helpers.py", line 22, in <module>
    from google.api_core import gapic_v1
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/api_core/gapic_v1/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from google.api_core.gapic_v1 import config
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-testvenv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/google/api_core/gapic_v1/config.py", line 23, in <module>
    import grpc
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grpc/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
    from grpc import _compression
  File "/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grpc/_compression.py", line 15, in <module>
    from grpc._cython import cygrpc
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grpc/_cython/cygrpc.cpython-310-darwin.so, 0x0002): tried: '/Users/d/Desktop/testing/fb-test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grpc/_cython/cygrpc.cpython-310-darwin.so'
 (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have (x86_64), need (arm64e)))

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install firebase-admin using pip install --upgrade firebase-admin
2. Add from firebase_admin import firestore to a script file
3. Run script file

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[xellosiris]

Ｉhave same issue here

[enahsor]

Ｉhave same issue here

Are you also using pyenv to manage your python environments @xellosiris?

[lahirumaramba]

I think this is an issue in the grpcio library on M1 machines. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69788752/on-apple-m1-grpc-google-api-import-error

According to the github issue it should be fixed in grpcio 1.47.0 and newer. Some developers have also used the following as a workaround... which is mentioned here.

pip install --no-binary :all: grpcio --ignore-installed