Cannot import QISKIT "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'qiskit._accelerate'"

Question

I'm trying to use qiskit in virtual environment via Anaconda, however although I see qiskit as installed, importing qiskit always fails with:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'qiskit._accelerate'

I can't find information about this anywhere. What is this module? What is wrong with the environment? It seems there's nothing called qiskit._accelerate

Answer 1

I've solved the issue thanks to Joseph Geipel's advice. There's some compatibility issue between Python and Qiskit.

Python 3.9.12 and Qiskit 0.37.0 seem not to work well together. When I've created a new environment with Python 3.8.13 and the same version of Qiskit, the problem was solved.