I am creating an Python project on Jupyter Notebook.

While trying to import NumPy I get this error:

Failed to initialize NumPy

I've used NumPy hundreds of previous times so I don't know why this time it decides to crash. These are all the packages that I'm trying to import:

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

I've seen some things saying maybe its because I'm using torch also, but don't know how to fix that problem. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling NumPy and also downgrading/upgrading the NumPy package to try to see if a different version would work instead.

My current NumPy version is 1.23.5 and my current Python version is Python3.11

I am creating an Python project on Jupyter Notebook.

While trying to import NumPy I get this error:

Failed to initialize NumPy

I've used NumPy hundreds of previous times so I don't know why this time it decides to crash. These are all the packages that I'm trying to import:

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

I've seen some things saying maybe its because I'm using torch also, but don't know how to fix that problem. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling NumPy and also downgrading/upgrading the NumPy package to try to see if a different version would work instead.

My current NumPy version is 1.23.5 and my current Python version is Python3.11

• python
• numpy

• 2 Does the error message have a traceback? If so, please provide it. – Nick ODell Commented 2 days ago
• Welcome to SO! If you suspect that torch may be the issue, have you tried importing numpy without torch? Perhaps you can isolate which other package is conflicting with the initialization of numpy. – Alex Duchnowski Commented 2 days ago
• always put full error message because there are other useful information. – furas Commented 2 days ago
• did you try to upgrade module(s)? – furas Commented 2 days ago

1 Answer 1

I think maybe your problem due to Numpy and PyTorch version conflict.

PyTorch depends on NumPy internally, and maybe installing PyTorch install an incompatible version of NumPy, causing initialization failures.

Please try to upgrade both PyTorch and NumPy to the latest versions using this:

pip install --upgrade numpy torch

After that, restart Jupyter Notebook and try again.