torchtext is in maintenance mode, but there's a problem with the current dependencies which I think may warrant an update and minor version bump. This problem causes pip install torchtext to install a broken installation by default.
Summary
The problem is that the installing the most recent version of torchtext pulls in the latest version of torch (2.4.0) but it's incompatible with that version of torch. Looks like there's some shared object file which is referencing some symbol that was removed. Using torchtext 0.18.0 with torch 2.4.0 causes import torchtext to fail with the following error:
π Bug
torchtext
is in maintenance mode, but there's a problem with the current dependencies which I think may warrant an update and minor version bump. This problem causespip install torchtext
to install a broken installation by default.Summary
The problem is that the installing the most recent version of torchtext pulls in the latest version of torch (2.4.0) but it's incompatible with that version of torch. Looks like there's some shared object file which is referencing some symbol that was removed. Using torchtext 0.18.0 with torch 2.4.0 causes
import torchtext
to fail with the following error:You can repro in a Colab notebook by:
!pip uninstall -y torch torchtext
!pip install torchtext
.import torchtext
Solution
AFAICT, there are two potential solutions:
Either solution would require a bump in the minor version and a push to pypi.