Wandb 0.12.6 leads to Import Failure. Works on reverting to 0.12.2

While Looking up ESPNet using this Tutorial: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1L85G7jdhsI1QKs2o0qCGEbhm5X4QV2zN

I came across this issue when the Library “Wandb” is imported.

# python3 -m espnet2.bin.asr_train --collect_stats true --use_preprocessor true --bpemodel data/token_list/bpe_unigram30/bpe.model --token_type bpe --token_list data/token_list/bpe_unigram30/tokens.txt --non_linguistic_symbols none --cleaner none --g2p none --train_data_path_and_name_and_type dump/raw/train_nodev/wav.scp,speech,sound --train_data_path_and_name_and_type dump/raw/train_nodev/text,text,text --valid_data_path_and_name_and_type dump/raw/train_dev/wav.scp,speech,sound --valid_data_path_and_name_and_type dump/raw/train_dev/text,text,text --train_shape_file exp/asr_stats_raw_bpe30/logdir/train.32.scp --valid_shape_file exp/asr_stats_raw_bpe30/logdir/valid.32.scp --output_dir exp/asr_stats_raw_bpe30/logdir/stats.32 --frontend_conf fs=16k 
# Started at Wed Oct 27 16:36:43 EDT 2021

    from .wandb_init import _attach, init  # noqa: F401
  File "/home/debayan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_init.py", line 35, in <module>
    from .backend.backend import Backend
  File "/home/debayan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wandb/sdk/backend/backend.py", line 20, in <module>
    from ..interface import interface
  File "/home/debayan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wandb/sdk/interface/interface.py", line 21, in <module>
    from wandb.proto import wandb_internal_pb2 as pb
  File "/home/debayan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wandb/proto/wandb_internal_pb2.py", line 15, in <module>
    from wandb.proto import wandb_base_pb2 as wandb_dot_proto_dot_wandb__base__pb2
  File "/home/debayan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wandb/proto/wandb_base_pb2.py", line 21, in <module>
    create_key=_descriptor._internal_create_key,
AttributeError: module 'google.protobuf.descriptor' has no attribute '_internal_create_key

This was in Wandb version 0.12.6 .

However, when I reverted to Wandb version 0.12.2, it started working as expected.

Feel free to reach out if any questions!

[sw005320]

Weeelll, ESPnet 1 employs chainer and not wandb, while ESPnet2 employs wandb and not chainer. IMO, the best solution will be to slip the projects, so we reduce the dependency on older pkg.

I see. This would be a smart solution, but it may take some time.

For now, how about using older versions of wandb? It is a little bit unfortunate, but I think this will be fixed in the future.

[kamo-naoyuki]

If there is no disagreement, I’ll proceed in my direction.