SystemError: initialization of _internal failed without raising an exception

[gaggiag]

I am trying to install whisper, and everything seemed to go very smoothly without any errors during installation.
However, I get this error message when I try to import whisper into python:

SystemError: initialization of _internal failed without raising an exception

Searching the web, it seems like a problem usually arises with numpy 1.24, but the numpy that was installed was 1.23.5. So it couldn't be it.
Any ideas how to solve this?

I am using MacOS Monterey, my python version is 3.10.4.

[brianjorden]

Had the same issue, but seem to have gotten past it.

pip uninstall numpy
pip uninstall numba
python3 -m pip install numba

Seems to be a dependency version issue. When you reinstall the numba package, it pulls in the right version of numpy.

WARNING: I haven't done much with python, so I'm not concerned about screwing up my environment. This worked for me, but may break something else for others.

[emiedeltares]

Worked for me too. Thanks :)

[ArjunS07]

Fantastic, it works, thank you!

[paperadio]

It really works, Thank you!

[pwernette]

Worked great for me, only I had to also run python -m pip install llvnlite --ignore-installed before python -m pip install numba.

[GoingBin]

you are ringht!

[serg06]

Identical but simpler solution:

pip install -U numba

[IsabeleVitorio]

Thanks!

[eromoe]

brianjorden is right, and be careful if you are using conda env. There may be two numpy installed ... I unstalll twice remove two different version numpy . Then new installation of numba work without error.