导入 spacy 时出现 ModuleNotFoundError（没有名为“pkg_resources.extern”的模块）

Question

I'm getting module not found error while importing spacy in my jupyter notebook.

ModuleNotFoundError: (No module named 'pkg_resources.extern')

Full error log here:

ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
→ 278 import spacy
279 import logging
280

/python/spacy/2.1.4-py37/exec/lib/spacy/init.py in ()
10 from thinc.neural.util import prefer_gpu, require_gpu
11
—> 12 from .cli.info import info as cli_info
13 from .glossary import explain
14 from .about import version

/python/PROJ/spacy/2.1.4-py37/exec/lib/spacy/cli/init.py in ()
----> 1 from .download import download 

/python/PROJ/spacy/2.1.4-py37/exec/lib/spacy/cli/download.py in ()
9 from wasabi import Printer
10
—> 11 from .link import link
12 from …util import get_package_path
13 from … import about

/python/PROJ/spacy/2.1.4-py37/exec/lib/spacy/cli/link.py in ()
7
8 from …compat import symlink_to, path2str
----> 9 from … import util
10
11

/python/PROJ/spacy/2.1.4-py37/exec/lib/spacy/util.py in ()
3
4 import os
----> 5 import pkg_resources
6 import importlib
7 import re

/user/rahul/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py in ()
55 FileExistsError = OSError
56
—> 57 from pkg_resources.extern import six
58 from pkg_resources.extern.six.moves import urllib, map, filter
59

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘pkg_resources.extern’

I followed multiple posts on the similar error and tried reinstalling/upgrading setuptools/pkg_resources, but none of them resolved my issue. This is happening only at my local! Also, note that this is happening only with spacy, but the error is pointing to python package pkg_resources . I'm stuck with this issue for quite long now, any suggestions would be highly apricated. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think in python 3 pkg_resources/__init__.py should not contain line from pkg_resources.extern import six - this is python 2 related. Somehow you have an older version of setuptools targeted at python 2. I suggest you trying to install specific setuptools version, eg pip install setuptools==56.0.0 .

Answer 2

I fixed the issue by deleting the .local , .jupyter & .ipython directories from my user home directory. The issue went away right after deleting the corrupted local files/directories.