Cannot import datasets - ValueError: pyarrow.lib.IpcWriteOptions size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility
Author: ehuangc
State: closed

### Describe the bug

When trying to import datasets, I get a pyarrow ValueError:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/edward/test/test.py", line 1, in <module>
    import datasets
  File "/Users/edward/opt/anaconda3/envs/cs235/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
    from .arrow_dataset import Dataset
  File "/Users/edward/opt/anaconda3/envs/cs235/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_dataset.py", line 65, in <module>
    from .arrow_reader import ArrowReader
  File "/Users/edward/opt/anaconda3/envs/cs235/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_reader.py", line 28, in <module>
    import pyarrow.parquet as pq
  File "/Users/edward/opt/anaconda3/envs/cs235/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyarrow/parquet/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .core import *
  File "/Users/edward/opt/anaconda3/envs/cs235/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyarrow/parquet/core.py", line 45, in <module>
    from pyarrow.fs import (LocalFileSystem, FileSystem, FileType,
  File "/Users/edward/opt/anaconda3/envs/cs235/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyarrow/fs.py", line 49, in <module>
    from pyarrow._gcsfs import GcsFileSystem  # noqa
  File "pyarrow/_gcsfs.pyx", line 1, in init pyarrow._gcsfs
ValueError: pyarrow.lib.IpcWriteOptions size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 88 from C header, got 72 from PyObject

### Steps to reproduce the bug

`import datasets`

### Expected behavior

Successful import

### Environment info

Conda environment, MacOS
python 3.9.12
datasets 2.12.0



Comments: Based on https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/10187, this probably means your `pyarrow` installation is not compatible with `datasets`.

Can you please execute the following commands in the terminal and paste the output here?
```
conda list | grep arrow
``` 
```
python -c "import pyarrow; print(pyarrow.__file__)"
```




> Based on [rapidsai/cudf#10187](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/10187), this probably means your `pyarrow` installation is not compatible with `datasets`.
> 
> Can you please execute the following commands in the terminal and paste the output here?
> 
> ```
> conda list | grep arrow
> ```
> 
> ```
> python -c "import pyarrow; print(pyarrow.__file__)"
> ```


Here is the output to the first command:
```
arrow-cpp                 11.0.0           py39h7f74497_0  
pyarrow                   12.0.0                   pypi_0    pypi
```
and the second:
```
/Users/edward/opt/anaconda3/envs/cs235/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyarrow/__init__.py
```
Thanks!





after installing pytesseract 0.3.10, I got the above error. FYI 

RuntimeError: Failed to import transformers.trainer because of the following error (look up to see its traceback):
pyarrow.lib.IpcWriteOptions size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 88 from C header, got 72 from PyObject

I got the same error, pyarrow 12.0.0 released May/2023 (https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/) is not compatible, running `pip install pyarrow==11.0.0` to force install the previous version solved the problem.

Do we need to update dependencies? 

Please note that our CI properly passes all tests with `pyarrow-12.0.0`, for Python 3.7 and Python 3.10, for Ubuntu and Windows: see for example https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/actions/runs/5157324334/jobs/9289582291

For conda with python3.8.16 this solved my problem! thanks!

> I got the same error, pyarrow 12.0.0 released May/2023 (https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/) is not compatible, running `pip install pyarrow==11.0.0` to force install the previous version solved the problem.
> 
> Do we need to update dependencies? I can work on that if no one else is working on it.



Thanks for replying. I am not sure about those environments but it seems like pyarrow-12.0.0 does not work for conda with python 3.8.16. 

> Please note that our CI properly passes all tests with `pyarrow-12.0.0`, for Python 3.7 and Python 3.10, for Ubuntu and Windows: see for example https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/actions/runs/5157324334/jobs/9289582291



Got the same error with:

```
arrow-cpp                 11.0.0          py310h7516544_0  
pyarrow                   12.0.0                   pypi_0    pypi

python                    3.10.11              h7a1cb2a_2  

datasets                  2.13.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
```

> I got the same error, pyarrow 12.0.0 released May/2023 (https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/) is not compatible, running `pip install pyarrow==11.0.0` to force install the previous version solved the problem.
> 
> Do we need to update dependencies?

This solved the issue for me as well.

> I got the same error, pyarrow 12.0.0 released May/2023 (https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/) is not compatible, running `pip install pyarrow==11.0.0` to force install the previous version solved the problem.
> 
> Do we need to update dependencies?

Solved it for me also

> 基于 [rapidsai/cudf#10187](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/10187)，这可能意味着您的安装与 不兼容。`pyarrow``datasets`
> 
> 您能否在终端中执行以下命令并将输出粘贴到此处？
> 
> ```
> conda list | grep arrow
> ```
> 
> ```
> python -c "import pyarrow; print(pyarrow.__file__)"
> ```

arrow-cpp                 11.0.0          py310h7516544_0  
pyarrow                   12.0.1                   pypi_0    pypi

/root/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/__init__.py

Got the same problem with

arrow-cpp                 11.0.0          py310h1fc3239_0  
pyarrow                   12.0.1                   pypi_0    pypi

miniforge3/envs/mlp/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/__init__.py

Reverting back to pyarrow 11 solved the problem.


Solved with `pip install pyarrow==11.0.0`

I got different. Solved with
pip install pyarrow==12.0.1
pip install cchardet

env:
Python 3.9.16
transformers  4.32.1

> I got the same error, pyarrow 12.0.0 released May/2023 (https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/) is not compatible, running `pip install pyarrow==11.0.0` to force install the previous version solved the problem.
> 
> Do we need to update dependencies?

This works for me as well

> I got different. Solved with pip install pyarrow==12.0.1 pip install cchardet
> 
> env: Python 3.9.16 transformers 4.32.1

I guess it also depends on the Python version. I got Python 3.11.5 and pyarrow==12.0.0. 
It works! 

Hi, if this helps anyone, pip install pyarrow==11.0.0 did not work for me (I'm using Colab) but this worked: 
!pip install --extra-index-url=https://pypi.nvidia.com cudf-cu11

> Hi, if this helps anyone, pip install pyarrow==11.0.0 did not work for me (I'm using Colab) but this worked: !pip install --extra-index-url=https://pypi.nvidia.com cudf-cu11

thanks! I met the same problem and your suggestion solved it.

(I was doing quiet install so I didn't notice it initially)
I've been loading the same dataset for months on Colab, just now I got this error as well. I think Colab has changed their image recently (I had some errors regarding CUDA previously as well). beware of this and restart runtime if you're doing quite pip installs.
moreover installing stable version of datasets on pypi gives this:

```
ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
ibis-framework 7.1.0 requires pyarrow<15,>=2, but you have pyarrow 15.0.0 which is incompatible.
Successfully installed datasets-2.17.0 dill-0.3.8 multiprocess-0.70.16 pyarrow-15.0.0
WARNING: The following packages were previously imported in this runtime:
  [pyarrow]
You must restart the runtime in order to use newly installed versions.
``` 


for colab - pip install pyarrow==11.0.0

The above methods didn't help me. So I installed an older version: `!pip install datasets==2.16.1`
and `import datasets` worked!!

@rasith1998 @PennlaineChu You can avoid this issue by restarting the session after the `datasets` installation (see https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/6661 for more info)

Also, we've contacted Google Colab folks to update the default PyArrow installation, so the issue should soon be "officially" resolved on their side.

> Also, we've contacted Google Colab folks to update the default PyArrow installation, so the issue should soon be "officially" resolved on their side.

This has been done! Google Colab now pre-installs PyArrow 14.0.2, which makes this issue unlikely to happen, so I'm closing it.

I am facing this issue outside of Colab, in a normal Python (3.10.14) environment:
```
pyarrow==11.0.0
datasets=2.20.0
transformers==4.41.2
```

What can I do to solve it?

I am somewhat bound to `pyarrow==11.0.0`. Is there a version of `datasets` that supports this?