# Chapter 1 questions

> Source: <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/chapter-1-questions/6797?page=6#post_125>
> Published: 2026-07-07 16:43:25+00:00

When I use the Colab notebook, I get an error on the second cell. Does anyone know how to fix it?

from transformers import pipeline

classifier = pipeline(“sentiment-analysis”)

classifier(“I’ve been waiting for a HuggingFace course my whole life.”)

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AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py in _*getattr*_(self, name)

2248 try:

→ 2249 module = self._get_module(self._class_to_module[name])

2250 value = getattr(module, name)

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py in _get_module(self, module_name)

2482 except Exception as e:

→ 2483 raise e

2484

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py in _get_module(self, module_name)

2480 try:

→ 2481 return importlib.import_module(“.” + module_name, self._*name*_)

2482 except Exception as e:

/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/_*init*_.py in import_module(name, package)

89 level += 1

—> 90 return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)

91

/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/_bootstrap.py in _gcd_import(name, package, level)

/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/_bootstrap.py in _find_and_load(name, import_)

/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/_bootstrap.py in _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)

/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/_bootstrap.py in _load_unlocked(spec)

/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/_bootstrap_external.py in exec_module(self, module)

/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/_bootstrap.py in _call_with_frames_removed(f, *args, **kwds)

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/pipelines/_*init*_.py in

26 from ..feature_extraction_utils import FeatureExtractionMixin

—> 27 from ..image_processing_utils import BaseImageProcessor

28 from ..models.auto.configuration_auto import AutoConfig

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/image_processing_utils.py in

33 )

—> 34 from .processing_utils import ImagesKwargs, Unpack

35 from .utils import (

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/processing_utils.py in

62 from .utils.chat_template_utils import _get_template_variables, render_jinja_template

—> 63 from .utils.type_validators import (

64 device_validator,

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/utils/type_validators.py in

7 from ..tokenization_utils_base import PaddingStrategy, TruncationStrategy

----> 8 from ..video_utils import VideoMetadataType

9 from .generic import TensorType

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/video_utils.py in

48 if is_torchvision_available():

—> 49 from torchvision import io as torchvision_io

50

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torchvision/_*init*_.py in

7 from . import extension # usort:skip # noqa: F401

----> 8 from torchvision import _meta_registrations, datasets, io, models, ops, transforms, utils # usort:skip

9

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torchvision/models/_*init*_.py in

1 from .alexnet import *

----> 2 from .convnext import *

3 from .densenet import *

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torchvision/models/convnext.py in

9 from ..ops.misc import Conv2dNormActivation, Permute

—> 10 from ..ops.stochastic_depth import StochasticDepth

11 from ..transforms._presets import ImageClassification

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torchvision/ops/_*init*_.py in

22 from .misc import Conv2dNormActivation, Conv3dNormActivation, FrozenBatchNorm2d, MLP, Permute, SqueezeExcitation

—> 23 from .poolers import MultiScaleRoIAlign

24 from .ps_roi_align import ps_roi_align, PSRoIAlign

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torchvision/ops/poolers.py in

9 from ..utils import _log_api_usage_once

—> 10 from .roi_align import roi_align

11

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torchvision/ops/roi_align.py in

6 from torch import nn, Tensor

----> 7 from torch._dynamo.utils import is_compile_supported

8 from torch.jit.annotations import BroadcastingList2

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/_dynamo/_*init*_.py in

12

—> 13 from . import (

14 aot_compile,

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/_dynamo/aot_compile.py in

14 import torch.fx

—> 15 from torch._dynamo.convert_frame import GraphRuntimeEnv

16 from torch._dynamo.graph_utils import _graph_device_type

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/_dynamo/convert_frame.py in

61 from torch._dynamo.distributed import get_compile_pg

—> 62 from torch._dynamo.symbolic_convert import TensorifyState

63 from torch._guards import compile_context, CompileContext, CompileId, tracing

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/_dynamo/symbolic_convert.py in

53 from torch._dynamo.dynamo_profiler import DynamoProfilerState, FunctionTraceTiming

—> 54 from torch._dynamo.exc import ObservedException, TensorifyScalarRestartAnalysis

55 from torch._guards import InlinedCodeCache, tracing, TracingContext

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/_dynamo/exc.py in

43 from . import config

—> 44 from .utils import counters

45

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/_dynamo/utils.py in

69 import torch._functorch.config

—> 70 import torch.fx.experimental.symbolic_shapes

71 import torch.utils._pytree as pytree

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/fx/experimental/symbolic_shapes.py in

79 from torch.utils._python_dispatch import is_traceable_wrapper_subclass

—> 80 from torch.utils._sympy.functions import (

81 Application,

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/utils/_sympy/functions.py in

187 # not, this can potentially cause correctness issues.

→ 188 class FloorDiv(sympy.Function):

189 “”"

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/utils/_sympy/functions.py in FloorDiv()

210

→ 211 def _sympystr(self, printer: sympy.printing.StrPrinter) → str:

212 base = printer.parenthesize(self.base, PRECEDENCE[“Atom”] - 0.5)

AttributeError: module ‘sympy’ has no attribute ‘printing’

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)

/tmp/ipykernel_3167/711506748.py in <cell line: 0>()

----> 1 from transformers import pipeline

2

3 classifier = pipeline(“sentiment-analysis”)

4 classifier(“I’ve been waiting for a HuggingFace course my whole life.”)

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py in _*getattr*_(self, name)

2335 ) from e

2336 else:

→ 2337 raise ModuleNotFoundError(

2338 f"Could not import module ‘{name}’. Are this object’s requirements defined correctly?"

2339 ) from e

ModuleNotFoundError: Could not import module ‘pipeline’. Are this object’s requirements defined correctly?
