ImportError: cannot import name 'pyopenpose' from partially initialized module 'openpose' (most likely due to a circular import)

[AIHHU]

ImportError: cannot import name 'pyopenpose' from partially initialized module 'openpose' (most likely due to a circular import)

[jayhendy]

Did you ever get this figured out? I'm having the same issue on OS X.

[hkair]

Having the same issue.

[benrubin]

Same issue here, ubuntu 18.04. OpenPose was working previously, now something in the environment must have changed, and it no longer imports the module.

[gordon-lim]

Check /usr/local/python and see if there's a pyopenpose file in there. If yes, it means pyopenpose was installed outside of your openpose build folder. I suppose you are trying to run an example. The example is looking for pyopenpose under path/to/openpose/python. You can fix this by using the command cp /usr/local/python path/to/openpose

[CHDQ]

cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=~/anaconda3/bin/python3.8 -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=~/anaconda3/lib/libpython3.8.so. this work for me

[soulslicer]

Hi, yes if you have a different version of python (not system python), then you may need to manually set those two parameters above. If you do sudo make install, then openpose get's installed to /usr/local/python and you simply need to add sys.path.append('/usr/local/python') in your code to import openpose

[vishnumg]

same issue in windows 10. I built from source. Opened python and imported openpose and i got this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\openpose\build\python\openpose\__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from . import pyopenpose as pyopenpose ImportError: cannot import name 'pyopenpose' from partially initialized module 'openpose' (most likely due to a circular import) (C:\openpose\build\python\openpose\__init__.py)

[NicoCatalano]

On ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, CPU only, built from source, I checked and make sure BUILD_PYHTON is flagged, openpose.bin works just fine.

If (from openpose dir) I run ls build/python/ CMakeFiles/ cmake_install.cmake Makefile openpose/ ls build/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles cmake_install.cmake __init__.py __init__.pyc Makefile __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/ openpose pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles __init__.py __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

if just open the python3 console and run the following code:

Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')
>>> from openpose import pyopenpose as op
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from . import pyopenpose as pyopenpose
ImportError: cannot import name 'pyopenpose' from partially initialized module 'openpose' (most likely due to a circular import) (/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py)

The same happens if I run sys.path.append('../../python') instead of sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')

[NicoCatalano]

On ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, CPU only, built from source, I checked and make sure BUILD_PYHTON is flagged, openpose.bin works just fine.

If (from openpose dir) I run ls build/python/ CMakeFiles/ cmake_install.cmake Makefile openpose/ ls build/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles cmake_install.cmake __init__.py __init__.pyc Makefile __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/ openpose pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles __init__.py __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

if just open the python3 console and run the following code:

Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')
>>> from openpose import pyopenpose as op
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from . import pyopenpose as pyopenpose
ImportError: cannot import name 'pyopenpose' from partially initialized module 'openpose' (most likely due to a circular import) (/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py)

The same happens if I run sys.path.append('../../python') instead of sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')

Solved it

Even if I don't have anaconda, by default the installer was creating the python file for python3.5 and not python3.8 . I had to force it setting PYTHON_EXECUTABLE to /usr/bin/python3 and PYTHON_LIBRARY to /usr/lib/python3.8/config-3.8-x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/libpython3.8.so in cmake-gui

[viju85]

I am on MacOS BigSur and having the same problem. Can someone please update this thread if there is a solution available for this circular dependency issue.

[pramod-wick]

On ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, CPU only, built from source, I checked and make sure BUILD_PYHTON is flagged, openpose.bin works just fine. If (from openpose dir) I run ls build/python/ CMakeFiles/ cmake_install.cmake Makefile openpose/ ls build/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles cmake_install.cmake __init__.py __init__.pyc Makefile __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/ openpose pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles __init__.py __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so if just open the python3 console and run the following code:

Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')
>>> from openpose import pyopenpose as op
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from . import pyopenpose as pyopenpose
ImportError: cannot import name 'pyopenpose' from partially initialized module 'openpose' (most likely due to a circular import) (/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py)

The same happens if I run sys.path.append('../../python') instead of sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')

Solved it

Even if I don't have anaconda, by default the installer was creating the python file for python3.5 and not python3.8 . I had to force it setting PYTHON_EXECUTABLE to /usr/bin/python3 and PYTHON_LIBRARY to /usr/lib/python3.8/config-3.8-x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/libpython3.8.so in cmake-gui

Worked after doing this, Thank you

[senemaktas]

On ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, CPU only, built from source, I checked and make sure BUILD_PYHTON is flagged, openpose.bin works just fine.

If (from openpose dir) I run ls build/python/ CMakeFiles/ cmake_install.cmake Makefile openpose/ ls build/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles cmake_install.cmake __init__.py __init__.pyc Makefile __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/ openpose pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so ls /usr/local/python/openpose/ CMakeFiles __init__.py __pycache__ pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

if just open the python3 console and run the following code:

Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')
>>> from openpose import pyopenpose as op
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from . import pyopenpose as pyopenpose
ImportError: cannot import name 'pyopenpose' from partially initialized module 'openpose' (most likely due to a circular import) (/usr/local/python/openpose/__init__.py)

The same happens if I run sys.path.append('../../python') instead of sys.path.append('/usr/local/python')

I do not have pyopenpose.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so file in my system, How can I have it?

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[Eunho-J]

In my case, there was no file named "pyopenpose.so" in "/usr/local/python". Try below commands.

cd /usr/local/python/openpose
sudo ln -s pyopenpose.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so pyopenpose.so

(in this case, you should use sys.path.append('/usr/local/python') instead of sys.path.append('../../python'))

[Eunho-J]

Oh.. I didn’t even think about that solution. Thanks a lot for mail me.

2022년 8월 23일 (화) 오후 11:41, Kokilou @.***>님이 작성:

You are using conda environment, aren't you? I solved this question by using the environment when I cmake openpose.

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