Cannot import pipelines from transformers

[balachander1964]

Hi, I use a Windows 10 Proffessional laptop for development and am using python 3.7.6 conda virtual env. I get the following run time error when running my code (below, after the error details). << bertqa interactive window [PTVS 17.0.22089.1-17.0] Type $help for a list of commands. The interactive window has not yet started. Running D:\Projects2017\bertqa\bertqa\aaa_scratch.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "d:\python\Anaconda3\envs\transformers_qa\lib\site-packages\transformers\utils\import_utils.py", line 905, in _get_module return importlib.import_module("." + module_name, self.name) File "d:\python\Anaconda3\envs\transformers_qa\lib\importlib__init.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 1006, in _gcd_import File "", line 983, in _find_and_load File "", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 677, in _load_unlocked File "", line 728, in exec_module File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed File "d:\python\Anaconda3\envs\transformers_qa\lib\site-packages\transformers\pipelines\init__.py", line 50, in from .image_classification import ImageClassificationPipeline File "d:\python\Anaconda3\envs\transformers_qa\lib\site-packages\transformers\pipelines\image_classification.py", line 15, in from PIL import Image File "d:\python\Anaconda3\envs\transformers_qa\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 69, in from . import _imaging as core ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Projects2017\bertqa\bertqa\aaa_scratch.py", line 5, in from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipelines File "", line 1032, in _handle_fromlist File "d:\python\Anaconda3\envs\transformers_qa\lib\site-packages\transformers\utils\import_utils.py", line 893, in getattr value = self._get_module(name) File "d:\python\Anaconda3\envs\transformers_qa\lib\site-packages\transformers\utils\import_utils.py", line 910, in _get_module ) from e RuntimeError: Failed to import transformers.pipelines because of the following error (look up to see its traceback): DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

The following is the code I am trying to execute: <<

imports

import os, sys import pandas as PD import numpy as NP from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipelines

_text = 'I bought a Toyota Corala last January. It works well..' _questions = [ 'What did the person buy?', 'What is working?', 'When did he buy?', ]

_model_name = "deepset/tinyroberta-squad2"

def main(): '''Main entry point''' nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name) qa_input = {} qa_input['question'] = _questions[0] qa_input['context'] = _text

answer = nlp(QA_input) print(answer)

''' Required for all python programs. ''' if name == 'main': print('Starting the QA tool.') main() print('Done')

I will appreciate if you let me know how to overcome this issue. Awaiting your reply.

[gante]

Hi @balachander1964 -- if you check the error log you shared, the error does not come from the transformers library. From a quick google search, the error seems to be from the environment set up (try googling DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.)

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