ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'regex._regex'

[7oda111]

i use this code in order to build a pipeline

import re
import nltk
from textblob import TextBlob
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer
from textblob import Word
from nltk.util import ngrams
import re
from wordcloud import WorldCloud , STOPWORDS
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize

the the error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'regex._regex' come up
any suggestions on the reason ???

[tomaarsen]

@7oda111 I would recommend running

pip install -U regex

in a terminal. I suspect your version of regex is outdated.

[tomaarsen]

I'm closing this. I suspect my comment above would work, and otherwise there are many other people who have encountered this before, e.g. psf/black#1207, which resolve it by pinning regex to a specific version.

[erikc96]

Just had this issue popup. Does it make sense to pin the regex version to this project's requirements?

[tomaarsen]

@erikc96 I'd say so. I'm willing to say that you won't have this issue again with regex>=2021.8.3. Good luck!

[Shivam-3108]

this issue popped up when I was importing nltk from a layer in aws lambda, the issue is with lambda detecting .cpython-xxxxx.so type of extensions and its compatibility