Prophet: ImportError: cannot import name 'easter' from 'holidays'

[kevindesai777]

ImportError: cannot import name 'easter' from 'holidays' (/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/holidays/__init__.py)

Install fine using pip3 install fbprophet

[nescobar]

This is discussed here: https://github.com/facebook/prophet/issues/1292

[dr-prodigy]

Complete explanation and fix here:
https://github.com/dr-prodigy/python-holidays/issues/277

[EmptyG]

dr-prodigy's recommendation (linked above) corrected the issue for me.

[kevindesai777]

Thanks guys. Downgrading holidays to 9.1.2 fixed it.

[dr-prodigy]

This is not the right way of fixing it.
Please consider fixing prophet code instead (as explained in my linked issue), in order to be future-proof (holidays supports new countries and features on every release).

[kevindesai777]

Thanks @dr-prodigy. Made fixes in the Prophet code. Changes work fine

[RSwarnkar]

Is this fixed? I am still getting error with holidays==0.10.1 and fbprophet==0.5.
Please suggest.

[RSwarnkar]

Thanks guys. Downgrading holidays to 9.1.2 fixed it.

There is no holiday==9.1.2 version?

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement holidays==9.1.2 (from versions: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8.1, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.11, 0.9.12, 0.10.1)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for holidays==9.1.2

[RSwarnkar]

Ok, below actually worked, at-least for importing fbprophet:
pip install holidays==0.9.12

[mpodlasin]

Wait, what do you mean "fix it in prophet code"? Like fork it and maintain project ourselves?

I don't want to be mean but... that's just absurd! @dr-prodigy

[dr-prodigy]

Wait, what do you mean "fix it in prophet code"? Like fork it and maintain project ourselves?

I don't want to be mean but... that's just absurd! @dr-prodigy

Reasons for this issue have been already clarified (direct use of library internals, not meant to be accessed from outside) by me, and fixed by prophet maintainers:
https://github.com/facebook/prophet/issues/1293

-1 for a rude and not relevant nor useful comment.

[mpodlasin]

@dr-prodigy I am sorry, my behavior was not acceptable.

However the issue still required me to downgrade holidays package. As it is, the project does not work "out of the box" after installation.

[dr-prodigy]

@dr-prodigy I am sorry, my behavior was not acceptable.

However the issue still required me to downgrade holidays package. As it is, the project does not work "out of the box" after installation.

@mpodlasin it's okay thank you! 👍

Unfortunately, even if the fix on prophet's code has already been released some weeks ago, a new official version of it has not yet been published on PyPi, thus the error is still there when sticking to official repo versions (ie: installed via pip install ..... ) .
While the prophet package on PyPi is still outdated, temporary solutions are basically 2:

• keep holidays' package back to previous version
• download latest prophet fixes getting code directly from github

as explained by @bletham here:
https://github.com/facebook/prophet/issues/1293

That being said, I can't provide details on official release plans for prophet.
You should refer to the project maintainers for this.

Hope this helps you out: have a nice day!

[kiranbeethoju]

to import and use fbprophet without error, you should have holidays version to be 0.9.12
then it works fine.
holidays==0.9.12

[mw91ful]

This solved it for me:

pip install fbprophet==0.6