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Unable to import textworld in colab

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25/100
Issue type
Bug
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Needs clarification
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Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, python

Research direction

Reproduce the import failure by opening the “Building a simple agent” notebook in Colab. Inspect the failing imports in tatsu/grammars.py and textworld/envs/wrappers/tw_inform7.py, then verify that importing textworld completes without the Python 3.10 errors or circular-import failure.

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Description

Hi, I'm running the notebook 'Building a simple agent' in colab and have encountered the following ImportError when I tried to import textworld.

/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/tatsu/grammars.py in
4 import os
5 import functools
----> 6 from collections import defaultdict, Mapping
7 from copy import copy
8 from itertools import takewhile

ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/init.py)

I tried replacing 'from collections import Mapping' with 'from collections.ac import Mapping' and got this error instead:

/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/textworld/envs/wrappers/tw_inform7.py in
91
92
---> 93 class TWInform7(textworld.core.Wrapper):
94 """
95 Wrapper to play Inform7 games generated by TextWorld.

AttributeError: partially initialized module 'textworld' has no attribute 'core' (most likely due to a circular import)

The installation of textworld was sucessfull.

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