How to resolve the hugging face error ImportError: cannot import name 'is_tokenizers_available' from 'transformers.utils'?

[brando90]

I was trying to use the ViTT transfomer. I got the following error with code:

from pathlib import Path
import torchvision
from typing import Callable
root = Path("~/data/").expanduser()
# root = Path(".").expanduser()
train = torchvision.datasets.CIFAR100(root=root, train=True, download=True)
test = torchvision.datasets.CIFAR100(root=root, train=False, download=True)
img2tensor: Callable = torchvision.transforms.ToTensor()
from transformers import ViTFeatureExtractor
feature_extractor = ViTFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained("google/vit-base-patch16-224-in21k")
x, y = train_ds[0]
print(f'{y=}')
print(f'{type(x)=}')
x = img2tensor(x)
x = x.unsqueeze(0)  # add batch size 1
out_cls: ImageClassifierOutput = model(x)
print(f'{out_cls.logits=}')

error

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/brandomiranda/opt/anaconda3/envs/meta_learning/lib/python3.9/code.py", line 90, in runcode
    exec(code, self.locals)
  File "<input>", line 11, in <module>
  File "/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/plugins/python/helpers/pydev/_pydev_bundle/pydev_import_hook.py", line 21, in do_import
    module = self._system_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/brandomiranda/opt/anaconda3/envs/meta_learning/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    from . import dependency_versions_check
  File "/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/plugins/python/helpers/pydev/_pydev_bundle/pydev_import_hook.py", line 21, in do_import
    module = self._system_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/brandomiranda/opt/anaconda3/envs/meta_learning/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/dependency_versions_check.py", line 36, in <module>
    from .utils import is_tokenizers_available
ImportError: cannot import name 'is_tokenizers_available' from 'transformers.utils' (/Users/brandomiranda/opt/anaconda3/envs/meta_learning/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/utils/__init__.py)

I tried upgrading everything but it still failed. Upgrade commands:

/Users/brandomiranda/opt/anaconda3/envs/meta_learning/bin/python -m 
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade huggingface-hub

pip install --upgrade transformers
pip install --upgrade huggingface-hub
pip install --upgrade datasets

pip install --upgrade tokenizers

pip install pytorch-transformers

pip install --upgrade torch
pip install --upgrade torchvision
pip install --upgrade torchtext
pip install --upgrade torchaudio

# pip install --upgrade torchmeta
pip uninstall torchmeta

Why and how to fix it?

Pip list:

(meta_learning) ❯ pip list
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hugging face (HF) related gitissues:

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• Tokenizer import error  #120
• The Conda package doesn't work on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 #585
• Failed to import transformers transformers#11262
• SO related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66590981/transformer-error-importing-packages-importerror-cannot-import-name-save-st
• HF discuss: https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-resolve-the-hugging-face-error-importerror-cannot-import-name-is-tokenizers-available-from-transformers-utils/23957
• reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pytorch/comments/xusuuy/how_to_resolve_the_hugging_face_error_importerror/
• SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73939929/how-to-resolve-the-hugging-face-error-importerror-cannot-import-name-is-tokeni
• How to resolve the hugging face error ImportError: cannot import name 'is_tokenizers_available' from 'transformers.utils'? #1080

[Narsil]

Hi, this doesn't seem like a tokenizers issue so I'll close this issue in favor of https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-resolve-the-hugging-face-error-importerror-cannot-import-name-is-tokenizers-available-from-transformers-utils/23957