Error "cannot import name 'TypeAliasType' from 'typing_extensions'" when importing openai just after installation

[yuanqingye]

Confirm this is an issue with the Python library and not an underlying OpenAI API

• This is an issue with the Python library

Describe the bug

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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[38], line 1
----> 1 import openai
      2 import os
      4 opai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")

File D:\Anaconda\envs\py38\lib\site-packages\openai\__init__.py:8
      5 import os as _os
      6 from typing_extensions import override
----> 8 from . import types
      9 from ._types import NoneType, Transport, ProxiesTypes
     10 from ._utils import file_from_path

File D:\Anaconda\envs\py38\lib\site-packages\openai\types\__init__.py:5
      1 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless.
      3 from __future__ import annotations
----> 5 from .edit import Edit as Edit
      6 from .image import Image as Image
      7 from .model import Model as Model

File D:\Anaconda\envs\py38\lib\site-packages\openai\types\edit.py:6
      3 from typing import List
      4 from typing_extensions import Literal
----> 6 from .._models import BaseModel
      7 from .completion_usage import CompletionUsage
      9 __all__ = ["Edit", "Choice"]

File D:\Anaconda\envs\py38\lib\site-packages\openai\_models.py:20
     18 import pydantic
     19 import pydantic.generics
---> 20 from pydantic.fields import FieldInfo
     22 from ._types import (
     23     Body,
     24     IncEx,
   (...)
     31     HttpxRequestFiles,
     32 )
     33 from ._utils import (
     34     is_list,
     35     is_given,
   (...)
     39     strip_not_given,
     40 )

File D:\Anaconda\envs\py38\lib\site-packages\pydantic\fields.py:24
     21 from pydantic_core import PydanticUndefined
     22 from typing_extensions import Literal, Unpack
---> 24 from . import types
     25 from ._internal import _decorators, _fields, _generics, _internal_dataclass, _repr, _typing_extra, _utils
     26 from .config import JsonDict

File D:\Anaconda\envs\py38\lib\site-packages\pydantic\types.py:33
     31 from annotated_types import BaseMetadata, MaxLen, MinLen
     32 from pydantic_core import CoreSchema, PydanticCustomError, core_schema
---> 33 from typing_extensions import Annotated, Literal, Protocol, TypeAlias, TypeAliasType, deprecated
     35 from ._internal import (
     36     _core_utils,
     37     _fields,
   (...)
     41     _validators,
     42 )
     43 from ._migration import getattr_migration

ImportError: cannot import name 'TypeAliasType' from 'typing_extensions' (D:\Anaconda\envs\py38\lib\site-packages\typing_extensions.py)

To Reproduce

import openai

then error happens
the typing_extensions version is 4.8.0(latest)

Code snippets

No response

OS

windows

Python version

Python 3.8.16

Library version

openai v 1.2.4

[RobertCraigie]

This stack trace comes from pydantic, what pydantic version do you have installed?

[yuanqingye]

pydantic

2.5.0

[RobertCraigie]

Are you using databricks? There are known issues with their environment breaking things #751

[yuanqingye]

Are you using databricks? There are known issues with their environment breaking things #751

No, As far as I know, we didn't use databricks.
Actually, I haven't heard of that before.

[rattrayalex]

What version of Anaconda are you on?

[yuanqingye]

What version of Anaconda are you on?

23.1.0

[VibhuAg]

Was able to fix this issue by upgrading to Python 3.11

[yuanqingye]

Was able to fix this issue by upgrading to Python 3.11

First, Thank you very much for point out the way to walk through

If possible, can you show me the reason for this bug?

[reinvantveer]

@rattrayalex @RobertCraigie can you re-open this issue? It's still an unresolved issue - a compatibility issue with Python versions before 3.11 where the pypi.org index promises support from 3.7.1 onwards.

[RobertCraigie]

The openai package works for me on Python 3.8, can you share any more details about your environment?

[neighthan]

This is probably an issue with pydantic or typing_extensions versions. In the pyproject.toml, it says one can use

    "pydantic>=1.9.0, <3",
    "typing-extensions>=4.7, <5",

but I got this same error in an environment with

• typing_extensions 4.10.0
• pydantic 2.6.2

though not in one with

• typing_extensions 4.8.0
• pydantic 1.10.13

There were several other differences between the envs, but this might be a start towards narrowing down versions of these libraries that work.

[saurabhtiger]

This is probably an issue with pydantic or typing_extensions versions. In the pyproject.toml, it says one can use

    "pydantic>=1.9.0, <3",
    "typing-extensions>=4.7, <5",

but I got this same error in an environment with

• typing_extensions 4.10.0
• pydantic 2.6.2

though not in one with

• typing_extensions 4.8.0
• pydantic 1.10.13

There were several other differences between the envs, but this might be a start towards narrowing down versions of these libraries that work.

This worked.