Turicreate: Unable to import turicreate in Jupyter Notebook

[samaujs]

Hi,
I am following the step in the installation of turicreate ("pip install -U turicreate") and after successful installation, I tried the first line of code "import turicreate as tc" in Jupyter Notebook and it fails with the following error :

ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
----> 1 import turicreate as tc

ImportError: No module named turicreate

Can you advise how to avoid this error? Thank you.

[TobyRoseman]

@samaujs - looks like your pip and your jupyter notebook are using different python environments. If you are following our standard install instructions, you need to make sure that you are running jupyter notebook from the same virtual environment where you installed turicreate.

[johnyquest7]

@samaujs as mentioned in the previous answer it could be due to using different python environment . I ran in to this initially. My notebook was configured to start in python 3. I switched the kernel to python 2 and it worked.

[johnyquest7]

Try
pip list or
conda list
at your command prompt and see if turicreate is listed

[samaujs]

I am following "standard install instructions" after jupyter notebook is installed somtime ago; using python 2.7 and invoke "jupyter notebook" in the virtual environment.

When attempting "pip list" in the virtual environment, the "turicreate 4.3.2" can be found but not at the console with the same commmand. Do I have to re-install jupyter notebook in the virtual environment or there is an environment setting that can be made to rectify the problem? Thank you.

[cianiandreadev]

I create a Docker container to support Jupyter with TC and works perfectly for me. I can share my Dockerfile settings if it may help for you. Just have a look, maybe you can find something useful:

FROM jupyter/base-notebook

USER root
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends apt-utils
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libblas-dev liblapack-dev
RUN chown -R jovyan /home

USER jovyan
RUN pip install --upgrade pip

RUN pip install requests==2.18.4
RUN pip install numpy==1.14.5

RUN pip install turicreate==5.0b2

RUN jupyter notebook --generate-config -y

[gustavla]

Another tip of ensuring that pip and jupyter operate on the same underlying python, call both explicitly through the python command:

python -m pip install turicreate
python -m jupyter notebook

[znation]

@samaujs To answer your question, yes, you will need to (re-)install Jupyter Notebook in the same virtual environment as Turi Create.

[johnyquest7]

Or you can install anaconda to the same virtual environment to get the most popular packages in one go.

$ curl -O https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3-5.0.1-Linux-x86_64.sh
followed by
$ bash Anaconda3-5.0.1-Linux-x86_64.sh

in your virtual environment prompt

[samaujs]

**Thanks guys; I tried to install Jupyter Notebook in the virtual environment (venv) with "python -m pip install jupyter". When I create the first line "import turicreate as tc", are the following warnings alright to proceed:

/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/_libs/__init__.py:4: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from .tslib import iNaT, NaT, Timestamp, Timedelta, OutOfBoundsDatetime
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py:26: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import (hashtable as _hashtable,
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/dtypes/common.py:6: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import algos, lib
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/util/hashing.py:7: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import hashing, tslib
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexes/base.py:7: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import (lib, index as libindex, tslib as libts,
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/tseries/offsets.py:21: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
import pandas._libs.tslibs.offsets as liboffsets
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/ops.py:16: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import algos as libalgos, ops as libops
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexes/interval.py:32: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs.interval import (
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/internals.py:14: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import internals as libinternals
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/sparse/array.py:33: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
import pandas._libs.sparse as splib
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/window.py:36: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
import pandas._libs.window as _window
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/groupby/groupby.py:68: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import (lib, reduction,
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py:30: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import algos as _algos, reshape as _reshape
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py:45: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
import pandas._libs.parsers as parsers
/Volumes/BACKUP2018/VirtualEnv/TuriCreate/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/io/pytables.py:50: RuntimeWarning: numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96, got 88
from pandas._libs import algos, lib, writers as libwriters

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[cianiandreadev]

These are just warnings and should not prevent you to use TC. Have a look to this question here. Maybe can be useful for you.

[samaujs]

I am running python 2.7 and realised the following errors when " pip install -U turicreate" is carried out in the virtual environment:

_**mxnet 1.1.0.post0 has requirement numpy<1.15.0,>=1.8.2, but you'll have numpy 1.15.0 which is incompatible.

mxnet 1.1.0.post0 has requirement requests<2.19.0,>=2.18.4, but you'll have requests 2.19.1 which is incompatible.**_

How can the above problems be resolved? Thanks.

[cianiandreadev]

@samaujs have a look to my dockerfile. Maybe it helps.

[samaujs]

I have uninstalled "requests" and "numpy" in the virtual environment and install them again with the provided versions (extracted from your docker information) and it works without errors. Thanks.

[ok-kewei]

Hello, I encountered the same issue and need your help.
I have the Turicreate installed in ABC directory, i checked it through pip list.
In the ABC directory, i have jupyter installed too.
But when i go to Jupyter notebook I couldn't import turicreate with the error message: No module named 'turicreate'.

[johnyquest7]

@ok-kewei you might be using the wrong kernel. Turicreate might have been installed under python 2. Try pip3 install turicreate or change your kernel

[ok-kewei]

@johnyquest7 Thanks for your reply. I don't know which step i missed out.
I managed to install turicreate successfully in Ubuntu virtual environment.

However, when i opened Jupyter to import Turicreate, it said ModuleNotFound. I installed Jupyter in the virtual environment.

Can any kind soul help me please..

[johnyquest7]

Can you try !pip3 install Turicreate in a jupyter notebook cell and try to import it after that cell

[johnyquest7]

Is your kernel set to python 3?

[ok-kewei]

Can you try !pip3 install Turicreate in a jupyter notebook cell and try to import it after that cell

Here is the error i got

[sutkarsh-s]

make sure you have installed turicreate and jupyter notebook inside virtual environment with same python version

[Gnaneswri]

i tried installing turicreate on windows 8. but i was not able to do it.i tried using both anconda and pip can anyone help me out

[TobyRoseman]

@Gnaneswri - Windows 8 is not supported. With WSL (Ubuntu 18) you should be able to use TuriCreate on Windows 10.

[Mlokos]

Another tip of ensuring that pip and jupyter operate on the same underlying python, call both explicitly through the python command:

python -m pip install turicreate
python -m jupyter notebook

That was my issue. I have created virtual environment and installed there only turicreate. When I was invoking jupyter in this folder, with active environment, the actual application was run from the main installation folder (not from the environment), probably due to fallback. Without any information about this I wasn't able to find the root cause easily. Explicit installation (python -m jupyter notebook) in active environment helped, though.

[rajdeep-ghosh]

I successfully installed turicreate in virtual environment but when I tried to import it in jupyter notebook it is showing "no module found". But when I ran "!pip3 install turicreate" in notebook it is showing all requirements satisfied. I cannot understand what is the problem. Pls help!

[TobyRoseman]

I successfully installed turicreate in virtual environment but when I tried to import it in jupyter notebook it is showing "no module found". But when I ran "!pip3 install turicreate" in notebook it is showing all requirements satisfied. I cannot understand what is the problem. Pls help!

You may be installing it for a different Python version. Rather than !pip3 install turicreate, trying running !pip install turicreate (no 3) in your notebook.