How to remove the error "SystemError: initialization of _internal failed without raising an exception"

Question

I am trying to import Top2Vec package for nlp topic modelling. But even after upgrading pip, numpy this error is coming.

I tried

pip install --upgrade pip

pip install --upgrade numpy

I was expecting to run

from top2vec import Top2Vec

model = Top2Vec(FAQs, speed='learn', workers=8)

but it is giving the mentioned error

Breunig

A similar issue exists in python-numba. – Caseose

Answer 1

It's probably related to the latest numpy release (v1.24.0). Try installing version 1.23.5:

pip install numpy==1.23.5

Donalddonaldson

I have the same issue but probably for a different reason. Here is the link to my question if you can help: #75191344 – Hilmahilt

Answer 2

For me, numba caused the error, which was shown inside the error message. Updating numba solved the problem:

pip install -U numba

Sherasherar

I was source building a package and faced this error, checking conda list didnt list numba but importing numba gave that error, just a 'pip install numba' sorted it for me. I am still wondering why it didn't throw the ModuleNotFound error... – Arbitrator

In my case this worked in AzureML environment. – Lifeless

Thanks. I couldn't from timezonefinder import TimezoneFinder. It now works thanks to your answer. – Quodlibet

Answer 3

For me it was not the numpy release as I was already on the version 1.23.5. I simply restarted the kernel and re-imported top2vec and it worked.

P.S. I was on an AWS Linux machine

Currin

worked for me! Python 3.9, Mac M1 pro – Barcarole

Answer 4

In my case, as for @CGFoX, I needed to uninstall and reinstall numba. The catch was that numba had been introduced by installing umap but then changed when I later imported scikit-image. After the latter import I had to reinstall numba-0.56.4 to avoid the error.

Dorcia

Answer 5

I had a similar error that required updating numba. The root issue was that my Python environment was pinned to Python 3.9. Updating the whole environment to Python 3.10 resolved the issue.

Protuberate