ImportError: cannot import name 'Type' when importing 'gensim"

Question

I want to import the "genism" library. I have previously successfully installed it by typing the following in the command prompt:

pip install gensim

However, the following error appears when importing it:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:/Users/PycharmProjects/untitled/file.py", line 3, in <module>
  import gensim
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\gensim\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
  from gensim import parsing, corpora, matutils, interfaces, models, similarities, summarization, utils  # noqa:F401
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\gensim\parsing\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
  from .preprocessing import (remove_stopwords, strip_punctuation, strip_punctuation2,  # noqa:F401
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\gensim\parsing\preprocessing.py", line 42, in <module>
  from gensim import utils
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\gensim\utils.py", line 40, in <module>
  import scipy.sparse
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\scipy\__init__.py", line 156, in <module>
  from . import fft
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\scipy\fft\__init__.py", line 76, in <module>
  from ._basic import (
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\scipy\fft\_basic.py", line 1, in <module>
  from scipy._lib.uarray import generate_multimethod, Dispatchable
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\scipy\_lib\uarray.py", line 27, in <module>
  from ._uarray import *
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\scipy\_lib\_uarray\__init__.py", line 114, in <module>
  from ._backend import *
 File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\scipy\_lib\_uarray\_backend.py", line 1, in <module>
  from typing import (
ImportError: cannot import name 'Type'

I have also previously successfully installed the "typing" library":

pip install typing

What should I do?

Answer 1

It is because Python 3.5 has its own version typing, and it is incompatible with the installed version of gensim. Upgrade to python3.6 could solve the problem.