ImportError: cannot import name utils

Not able to run Plot.ly because of error:

Traceback:

import plotly
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-35-9c23c5c2643a> in <module>()
      2 import numpy as np
      3 import dateutil
----> 4 import plotly

~/ipython-venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/__init__.py in <module>()
     29 from __future__ import absolute_import
     30 
---> 31 from plotly import (plotly, graph_objs, grid_objs, tools, utils, session,
     32                     offline)
     33 from plotly.version import __version__

~/ipython-venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/__init__.py in <module>()
      8 
      9 """
---> 10 from . plotly import (
     11     sign_in,
     12     update_plot_options,

~/ipython-venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/plotly.py in <module>()
     29 from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
     30 
---> 31 from plotly import exceptions, tools, utils, version, files
     32 from plotly.plotly import chunked_requests
     33 from plotly.session import (sign_in, update_session_plot_options,

~/ipython-venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/tools.py in <module>()
     16 import math
     17 
---> 18 from plotly import utils
     19 from plotly import exceptions
     20 from plotly import graph_reference

ImportError: cannot import name utils

Requirements.txt:

appnope (0.1.0)
backports-abc (0.4)
backports.ssl-match-hostname (3.5.0.1)
beautifulsoup4 (4.4.1)
brewer2mpl (1.4.1)
certifi (2015.11.20.1)
cycler (0.9.0)
decorator (4.0.9)
functools32 (3.2.3.post2)
ggplot (0.6.8)
gnureadline (6.3.3)
ipykernel (4.2.2)
ipython (4.1.1)
ipython-genutils (0.1.0)
Jinja2 (2.8)
jsonschema (2.5.1)
jupyter-client (4.1.1)
jupyter-core (4.0.6)
MarkupSafe (0.23)
matplotlib (1.5.1)
mechanize (0.2.5)
mistune (0.7.1)
nbconvert (4.1.0)
nbformat (4.0.1)
notebook (4.1.0)
numpy (1.10.4)
pandas (0.17.1)
path.py (8.1.2)
patsy (0.4.1)
pexpect (4.0.1)
pickleshare (0.6)
pip (8.0.2)
plotly (1.9.5)
ptyprocess (0.5.1)
Pygments (2.1.1)
pyparsing (2.1.0)
python-dateutil (2.4.2)
pytz (2015.7)
pyzmq (15.2.0)
requests (2.9.1)
scipy (0.17.0)
selenium (2.52.0)
setuptools (20.1.1)
simplegeneric (0.8.1)
singledispatch (3.4.0.3)
six (1.10.0)
statsmodels (0.6.1)
termcolor (1.1.0)
terminado (0.6)
tornado (4.3)
traitlets (4.1.0)
utils (0.9.0)

[actongorton]

Okay, I think that I’ve found something more consistent with this.

If I import matplotlib before trying to import plotly, then the “cannot import name utils” error appears.

If I restart the Python kernel and skip trying to load matplotlib, then the utils error does not appear.

I’m using inotebook and have been trying to figure out why I’ve been getting the insecure string pickle error with matplotlib, which is why I was trampling on top of other libraries.

[jonmmease]

Hi @actongorton, I’m going to close this issue for now since plotly.py has been largely rewritten over the last two years, but feel free to open a new issue if you’re having similar problems with ploty.py version 3. Thanks!