ImportError: cannot import name 'InferenceHelper' from 'infer' (/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/infer/__init__.py)

[YIN-Renlong]

Hello, I attempted to install it (Disco_Diffusion_v5_4_[Now_with_Warp].ipynb) on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with Jupyter Lab, however received the following issues. Is there an equivalent solution? thanks

disco_xform_utils.py failed to import InferenceHelper. Please ensure that AdaBins directory is in the path (i.e. via sys.path.append('./AdaBins') or other means).

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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [56], in <cell line: 134>()
    142         wget("https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmd2mMnDLWePKmgfS8m6ntAg4nhV5VkUyAydYBp8cWWeB7/AdaBins_nyu.pt", f'{PROJECT_DIR}/pretrained')
    143     sys.path.append(f'{PROJECT_DIR}/AdaBins')
--> 144 from infer import InferenceHelper
    145 print(sys.path)
    146 MAX_ADABINS_AREA = 500000

ImportError: cannot import name 'InferenceHelper' from 'infer' (/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/infer/__init__.py)

[YIN-Renlong]

Solution: pip uninstall infer and restart kernel.

This will result in a conflict on the VM with the Infer already installed.

Hi @aletts , this could be a bug that you should look at fixing.

[aletts]

I think you may have installed that one locally ( ? ). I remember seeing that once when I was initially integrating AdaBins in my local setup. I think infer is an unrelated module. I chose to avoid pip installing things locally since it might disturb peoples' environment. Instead, the code just does a git clone of the AdaBins source code and imports things from AdaBins/infer.py

So I think / hope Disco Diffusion doesn't have a problem there.

[aletts]

Actually, I think I see what you're saying now. You may be saying that you have infer for a real reason - and that you want to be able to use Disco Diffusion while you have it installed. Annoyingly, AdaBins uses a few really common words in its filenames.. which makes it a little bit more difficult to import things from it when other modules using common names are around. I recently had a similar conflict between AdaBins and RAFT. If anyone's able to reliably import those files from the git cloned projects without conflicts without renaming files, I'd be happy.

[YIN-Renlong]

Hi @aletts , thanks for the reply, I would say yes, that is what I meant. Infer may be pre-installed on Ubuntu's system for certain reason. In this case, it will result in a fatal conflict with the DD installation.

Is it possible to think about a detection mechanism: uninstall or stop infer while DD is running, and then reinstall infer after DD has finished?

Best

[aletts]

It'd be easiest for me to adjust DD's installation process for it.. to make it rename infer.py to adabins_infer.py or something. It's a hack, but it wouldn't be the first time I've done it.

[BeaverInGreenland]

disco_xform_utils.py failed to import InferenceHelper. Please ensure that AdaBins directory is in the path (i.e. via sys.path.append('./AdaBins') or other means).

DD works, but I am still seeing this error (or warning ?). Should I ignore it ? It doesn't affect the generation process

[illtellyoulater]

The AdaBins error can be misleading and hide other errors... See https://github.com/MohamadZeina/Disco_Diffusion_Local/issues/30#issuecomment-1341383387