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What does "ImportError: cannot import name randbits" mean?

The first cell of my jupyter notebook contains the libraries I want to import. For some reason when I run it receive the ImportError: cannot import name randbits. I have never seen this import error before and have already tried restarting the kernel and confirmed that all libraries were installed correctly. As anyone seen this before and know what to do about this error?
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import requests
import xlsxwriter
import math
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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [1], in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 import numpy as np
2 import pandas as pd
3 import requests
File C:\pyver\py3.10.5\lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py:151, in <module>
149 from . import fft
150 from . import polynomial
--> 151 from . import random
152 from . import ctypeslib
153 from . import ma
File C:\pyver\py3.10.5\lib\site-packages\numpy\random\__init__.py:180, in <module>
126 __all__ = [
127 'beta',
128 'binomial',
(...)
176 'zipf',
177 ]
179 # add these for module-freeze analysis (like PyInstaller)
--> 180 from . import _pickle
181 from . import _common
182 from . import _bounded_integers
File C:\pyver\py3.10.5\lib\site-packages\numpy\random\_pickle.py:1, in <module>
----> 1 from .mtrand import RandomState
2 from ._philox import Philox
3 from ._pcg64 import PCG64, PCG64DXSM
File mtrand.pyx:1, in init numpy.random.mtrand()
File bit_generator.pyx:38, in init numpy.random.bit_generator()
ImportError: cannot import name randbits

I have been having the same issue all day. Finally figured out what solved my problem. Somehow anaconda3/Lib/secrets.py got overwritten. Numpy relies on files in this directory called random.py and secrets.py so if you have files with those names numpy will not load.
-I renamed my incorrect secrets.py file
-Found the secrets.py source code and recreated the file. Solved my issue. Hope it helps. The links below were the most beneficial for me.
People having similar issues with numpy:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/14860
Source code for secrets.py:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Lib/secrets.py

ImportError in Jupyter Notebook

I am trying import a module in Jupyter and it is not working:
import alyn
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-8e9535ea4303> in <module>()
----> 1 import alyn
~\Anaconda3\envs\tracx\lib\site-packages\alyn\__init__.py in <module>()
1 """ Import required modules"""
----> 2 from deskew import *
3 from skew_detect import *
ImportError: No module named 'deskew'
I don't quite understand why, since the package in question has a correct init.py file:
whose contents are:
""" Import required modules"""
from deskew import *
from skew_detect import *
What am I missing?
P.S.
This is all taking place on Windows 10.

Well, I've figured it out!
Turns out that the package I was trying to import is written in Python 2 and its init file is using the relative import mechanism. However, I am working in Python 3 and relative import is no longer supported in it. The init file can be made to work in Python 3 by adding a . in both lines, like this:
""" Import required modules"""
from .deskew import *
from .skew_detect import *
I think this should be backward compatible with Python 2.

do I have a circular import in python

I'm trying to port over a python project from v2.x, to v3.x
one of the major changes to python was the import system.
I am now seeing an error when trying to load my python notebook as follows
package/
__init__.py
bh_tsne.py
Collect Samples.ipynb //imports utils.list_all_files, sees error
Error Output
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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-1339232cd15c> in <module>()
1 import numpy as np
2 from os.path import join
----> 3 from utils.list_all_files import list_all_files
4 from multiprocessing import Pool
/~/AudioNotebooks/utils/__init__.py in <module>()
4 from . import show_array
5 from . import make_mosaic
----> 6 from . import bh_tsne
7 from . import normalize
8 from . import mkdir_p
ImportError: cannot import name 'bh_tsne'
strangely.. I think the problem is a circular dependence.. but bh_tsne doesn't rely on any utilities.. could the circularity be coming from my utils.list_all_files and then the __init__.py ?
bh_tsne imports
from argparse import ArgumentParser, FileType
from os.path import abspath, dirname, isfile, join as path_join
from shutil import rmtree
from struct import calcsize, pack, unpack
from subprocess import Popen
from sys import stderr, stdin, stdout
from tempfile import mkdtemp
from platform import system
from os import devnull
import numpy as np
import os, sys
import io
Edit
Is that redundant os.path join perhaps the root cause?

I ended up just upgrading the wrapper that was used in one project from it's source upstream project. The original owner had done upgrades.
https://github.com/lvdmaaten/bhtsne/blob/master/bhtsne.py
and the import worked after that as
import utils.bhtsne as bhtsne

I found out that bh_tsne seems NOT to work with python 3. Also another version (Multicore TSNE) just work with python 2.7 as well

About Graphlab library importing

In Ubuntu 14.04, I have installed Graphlab based on https://dato.com/download/install-graphlab-create-command-line.html and it seems to be working fine.
However, I receive this error when trying to use a recommender module:
import graphlab
from graphlab.recommender import ranking_factorization_recommender
In the first line, graphlab is imported without any error. However, the second line causes this error:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-34df81ffb957> in <module>()
----> 1 from graphlab.recommender import ranking_factorization_recommender
ImportError: No module named recommender
How can the problem be solved? Thanks

It's just a namespace issue. recommender actually lives in the `toolkits module, so this should work:
import graphlab
from graphlab.toolkits.recommender import ranking_factorization_recommender

Graphlab has already imported everything for you in their __init__.py file.
Just do:
from graphlab import ranking_factorization_recommender
from graphlab import <any_other_recommender>
Here is a snippet of graphlab.__init__.py file:
from graphlab.util import get_runtime_config
from graphlab.util import set_runtime_config
import graphlab.connect as _mt
import graphlab.connect.aws as aws
from . import visualization
import os as _os
import sys as _sys
if _sys.platform != 'win32' or \
(_os.path.exists(_os.path.join(_os.path.dirname(__file__), 'cython', 'libstdc++-6.dll')) and \
_os.path.exists(_os.path.join(_os.path.dirname(__file__), 'cython', 'libgcc_s_seh-1.dll'))):
from graphlab.data_structures.sgraph import Vertex, Edge
from graphlab.data_structures.sgraph import SGraph
from graphlab.data_structures.sarray import SArray
from graphlab.data_structures.sframe import SFrame
from graphlab.data_structures.sketch import Sketch
from graphlab.data_structures.image import Image
from graphlab.data_structures.sgraph import load_sgraph, load_graph
from graphlab.toolkits._model import Model, CustomModel
import graphlab.aggregate
import graphlab.toolkits
import graphlab.toolkits.clustering as clustering
import graphlab.toolkits.distances as distances
...

Unable to import modules from 'math' in Python

I've hit this weird issue were I'm unable to import from the math module in Python. However importing the entire module works.
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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/analysis_routines/visar_analysis.py in <module>()
16
17 from core import scopes as cscopes
---> 18 from core import plot as cplot
19 from core.plot import ImageData, IndexSelector
20 from core.math import savitzky_golay
/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/core_diag/core/plot.py in <module>()
10 sys.path.append(CORE_DIR)
11
---> 12 from core import math as cmath
13
14 class ImageData(object):
/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/core_diag/core/math.py in <module>()
3 import sys
4 import math
----> 5 from math import factorial
6 from scipy.integrate import cumtrapz
7
ImportError: cannot import name factorial
My directory structure is something like this
Main file
from math import factorial # works fine here
import custom_module
custom_module
import math # works fine
from math import factorial # breaks
I have no idea why this could be. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm working inside of a virtual environment.

If you want to import the built-in math inside core.math, turn on absolute imports so you don't get core.math instead:
from __future__ import absolute_import