Import error: cannot import name 'BaseKeyedVectors' from 'gensim.models.keyedvectors'

[santoshbs]

Thanks for making this very useful python package.

I tried to use it. But get an error with the following line:
from wefe.query import Query

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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-02319299b065> in <module>
----> 1 from wefe.query import Query
      2 from wefe.word_embedding_model import WordEmbeddingModel
      3 from wefe.metrics.WEAT import WEAT
      4 #import gensim.downloader as api

/anaconda/envs/py37_default/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wefe/__init__.py in <module>
----> 1 from .word_embedding_model import WordEmbeddingModel
      2 from .query import Query
      3 from .metrics.base_metric import BaseMetric
      4 from .metrics.WEAT import WEAT
      5 from .metrics.RND import RND

/anaconda/envs/py37_default/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wefe/word_embedding_model.py in <module>
----> 1 from gensim.models.keyedvectors import BaseKeyedVectors
      2 
      3 
      4 class WordEmbeddingModel:
      5     """A container for Word Embedding pre-trained models.

ImportError: cannot import name 'BaseKeyedVectors' from 'gensim.models.keyedvectors' (/anaconda/envs/py37_default/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gensim/models/keyedvectors.py)

[pbadillatorrealba]

Hello @santoshbs ,

The error you are describing is related to the gensim package.
Maybe it's not installed or if it is installed, you have an older version.

If you use pip as a python package manager, try running it on a console:

pip install --upgrade gensim

If you use anaconda, try running:

conda install -c conda-forge gensim

Tell me if it doesn't work.

Best regards,
Pablo.

[santoshbs]

Thanks a lot, @pabloBad. It worked with the following steps:
Downgrade Python to 3.8.0 or 3.7.0.
Downgrade gensim from 4.0 to 3.8.3.

Unfortunately, I had created a word2vec model using Gensim 4.0. An environment with gensim 3.8.3 does not seem to load this. So I guess I have to retrain the model with 3.8.3 and try WEAT for bias.