ImportError when importing datasets.load_dataset
Author: Leo-Lsc
State: closed

### Describe the bug

I encountered an ImportError while trying to import `load_dataset` from the `datasets` module in Hugging Face. The error message indicates a problem with importing 'CommitInfo' from 'huggingface_hub'.

### Steps to reproduce the bug

1. pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/datasets
2. from datasets import load_dataset

### Expected behavior

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[7], [line 1](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=7&line=1)
----> [1](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=7&line=1) from datasets import load_dataset
      [3](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=7&line=3) train_set = load_dataset("mispeech/speechocean762", split="train")
      [4](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=7&line=4) test_set = load_dataset("mispeech/speechocean762", split="test")

File d:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Lib\site-packages\datasets\__init__.py:[1](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:1)7
      1 # Copyright 2020 The HuggingFace Datasets Authors and the TensorFlow Datasets Authors.
      [2](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:2) #
      [3](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:3) # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   (...)
     [12](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:12) # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     [13](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:13) # limitations under the License.
     [15](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:15) __version__ = "2.20.1.dev0"
---> [17](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:17) from .arrow_dataset import Dataset
     [18](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:18) from .arrow_reader import ReadInstruction
     [19](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py:19) from .builder import ArrowBasedBuilder, BeamBasedBuilder, BuilderConfig, DatasetBuilder, GeneratorBasedBuilder

File d:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Lib\site-packages\datasets\arrow_dataset.py:63
     [61](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:61) import pyarrow.compute as pc
     [62](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:62) from fsspec.core import url_to_fs
---> [63](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:63) from huggingface_hub import (
     [64](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:64)     CommitInfo,
     [65](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:65)     CommitOperationAdd,
...
     [70](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:70) )
     [71](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:71) from huggingface_hub.hf_api import RepoFile
     [72](file:///D:/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py:72) from multiprocess import Pool

ImportError: cannot import name 'CommitInfo' from 'huggingface_hub' (d:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\__init__.py)
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### Environment info

Leo@DESKTOP-9NHUAMI MSYS /d/Anaconda3/envs/CS224S/Lib/site-packages/huggingface_hub
$ datasets-cli env
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "D:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Scripts\datasets-cli.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "D:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Lib\site-packages\datasets\__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from .arrow_dataset import Dataset
  File "D:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Lib\site-packages\datasets\arrow_dataset.py", line 63, in <module>
    from huggingface_hub import (
ImportError: cannot import name 'CommitInfo' from 'huggingface_hub' (D:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\__init__.py)
(CS224S)

Comments: What is the version of your installed `huggingface-hub`:
```python
import huggingface_hub
print(huggingface_hub.__version__)
```

It seems you have a very old version of `huggingface-hub`, where `CommitInfo` was not still implemented. You need to update it:
```
pip install -U huggingface-hub
```

Note that `CommitInfo` was implemented in huggingface-hub 0.10.0 and datasets requires "huggingface-hub>=0.21.2"

The version of my huggingface-hub is 0.23.4.

The error message says there is no CommitInfo in your installed huggingface-hub library:
```
ImportError: cannot import name 'CommitInfo' from 'huggingface_hub' (D:\Anaconda3\envs\CS224S\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub_init_.py)
```

And this is implemented since version 0.10.0:
- https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/pull/1066

I am getting the exact same issue when I `import datasets`. The version of my huggingface-hub is also 0.23.4. I dont see a solution in the comments. Not sure why is this issue closed?

I closed the issue because the problem is not related to the `datasets` library.

The problem is with your local Python environment: it seems corrupted. You could try to remove it and regenerate it again.

I have recreated my conda environment but still run into the same issue. Here is my environment:
```
conda create --name esm python=3.10
 conda activate esm
 conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia
 pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```
Requirements.txt
```
accelerate
datasets==2.20.0
pyfastx
transformers
boto3
huggingface_hub==0.23.4
```

And then I get:
```
>>> import datasets
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/fsx/ubuntu/miniconda3/envs/esm2/lib/python3.10/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from .arrow_dataset import Dataset
  File "/fsx/ubuntu/miniconda3/envs/esm2/lib/python3.10/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py", line 63, in <module>
    from huggingface_hub import (
ImportError: cannot import name 'CommitInfo' from 'huggingface_hub' (/fsx/ubuntu/miniconda3/envs/esm2/lib/python3.10/site-packages/huggingface_hub/__init__.py)
>>>
```



You can check:
```
>>> import huggingface_hub
>>> print(huggingface_hub.__version__)
```

This is what I see:
```
>>> import huggingface_hub
>>> print(huggingface_hub.__version__)
0.23.4
```

Installing `chardet` makes it work for some reason