Failed to import transformers
Author: notooth1
Pull request: no

I got this error when importing transformers. Please help.
My system is Debian 10, Anaconda3.
```
$ python
Python 3.8.5 (default, Sep  4 2020, 07:30:14) 
[GCC 7.3.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from transformers import pipeline
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/__init__.py", line 2487, in __getattr__
    return super().__getattr__(name)
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/file_utils.py", line 1699, in __getattr__
    module = self._get_module(self._class_to_module[name])
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/__init__.py", line 2481, in _get_module
    return importlib.import_module("." + module_name, self.__name__)
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ..modelcard import ModelCard
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/modelcard.py", line 31, in <module>
    from .models.auto.configuration_auto import ALL_PRETRAINED_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_MAP
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/models/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    from . import (
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/models/layoutlm/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from .tokenization_layoutlm import LayoutLMTokenizer
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/models/layoutlm/tokenization_layoutlm.py", line 19, in <module>
    from ..bert.tokenization_bert import BertTokenizer
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/models/bert/tokenization_bert.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ...tokenization_utils import PreTrainedTokenizer, _is_control, _is_punctuation, _is_whitespace
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/tokenization_utils.py", line 26, in <module>
    from .tokenization_utils_base import (
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/transformers/tokenization_utils_base.py", line 68, in <module>
    from tokenizers import AddedToken
  File "/home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tokenizers/__init__.py", line 79, in <module>
    from .tokenizers import (
ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /home/notooth/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tokenizers/tokenizers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so)
```

Comments:
I think this is the same issue as https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers/issues/585

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I am struggling with the same issue. Have you solved the problem?

> 
> 
> I am struggling with the same issue. Have you solved the problem?

use pip instead of conda:
```
conda uninstall tokenizers, transformers
pip install transformers
```


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Solved this issue by downgrading to python 3.6 and conda 4.6.14

Solved this by downgrading from python 3.8 to 3.7

Solved this by doing `pip install pytorch-transformers` and then reload the notebook/application. I keep my python version 3.7.

> Solved this by doing `pip install pytorch-transformers` and then reload the notebook/application. I keep my python version 3.7.

didn't work for me :(, details: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/15062

Maybe your numpy version is too low, try again after updating

> Maybe your numpy version is too low, try again after updating

pip install numpy==1.24.2 works

@kyxyxn how did you download python 3.6 . I am using colab and unable to downgrade the version. Any help is very appreciated.

> @kyxyxn how did you download python 3.6 . I am using colab and unable to downgrade the version. Any help is very appreciated.

conda install python==3.6