在 PyCharm（不兼容的架构）中运行脚本时，M1 Mac 上“sounddevice”的 Python ImportError

Question

I have an M1 Mac. My program was running fine in PyCharm when using the Intel-based dmg. PyCharm kept notifying me to upgrade to the version optimized for Apple Silicon. PyCharm opened noticeably smoother. But trying to run my script now gives me an ImportError for "sounddevice" library. I tried to pip uninstall/reinstall, but made no difference. How can I fix this?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/anonymous/PycharmProjects/ChineseTranscriber/main.py", line 2, in <module>
    import sounddevice
  File "/Users/anonymous/PycharmProjects/ChineseTranscriber/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sounddevice.py", line 58, in <module>
    from _sounddevice import ffi as _ffi
  File "/Users/anonymous/PycharmProjects/ChineseTranscriber/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_sounddevice.py", line 2, in <module>
    import _cffi_backend
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/anonymous/PycharmProjects/ChineseTranscriber/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_cffi_backend.cpython-39-darwin.so, 0x0002): tried: '/Users/anonymous/PycharmProjects/ChineseTranscriber/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_cffi_backend.cpython-39-darwin.so' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64')), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Users/anonymous/PycharmProjects/ChineseTranscriber/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_cffi_backend.cpython-39-darwin.so' (no such file), '/Users/anonymous/PycharmProjects/ChineseTranscriber/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_cffi_backend.cpython-39-darwin.so' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64'))

Process finished with exit code 1

Answer 1

By default, pip install installed the latest version (as of the time of this post, version 0.4.5)

python3 -m pip install sounddevice

Documentation states that version 0.4.3 added the a "universal".dylib for macOs: https://readthedocs.org/projects/python-sounddevice/downloads/pdf/latest/

However, version 0.4.5 seemed to unintendedly revert/negatively affect the necessary change in 0.4.3.

Uninstalling sounddevice and specifying the reinstall to use version 0.4.3 fixed the issue

python3 -m pip uninstall sounddevice
python3 -m pip install -Iv sounddevice==0.4.3