Reputation: 387

ImportError: cannot import name 'ensure_dir_exists'

I update the Jupyter notebook from the old version to latest 5.3.1. However, when I try to launch the notebook from anaconda, it throws an import error: I tried to remove and install Jupyter package, still, the issue persists.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\v-kangsa\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts\jupyter-notebook-script.py", line 6, in 
from notebook.notebookapp import main
File "C:\Users\v-kangsa\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\notebook\__init__.py", line 25, in 
from .nbextensions import install_nbextension
File "C:\Users\v-kangsa\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\notebook\nbextensions.py", line 27, in 
from jupyter_core.utils import ensure_dir_exists
ImportError: cannot import name 'ensure_dir_exists'

Upvotes: 32

Answers (6)

tbnsilveira

Reputation: 468

I had a similar issue on Ubuntu after installing RStudio on my system. To solve it, first I tried @MichaelCara suggestion to update jupyter. However, after that I got the following new message error:

ImportError: libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

which I solved installing libsodium as explained here.

In short:

conda update jupyter_core jupyter_client jupyter_console
conda install libsodium

Upvotes: 0

Pistachio Guoguo

Reputation: 341

When I tried to install R the notebook was upgraded to 5.3.1 and same problem appeared, however the highest vote answer apparently didn't work for me.

What I did was:

conda uninstall jupyter notebook

then:

conda install jupyter notebook

and the problem solved with the old version.

Upvotes: 2

Cristian Q

Reputation: 647

update jupyter core

pip install jupyter-core --upgrade

this working for me in Anaconda3 with python 3.6

Upvotes: 10

Wu Wenter

Reputation: 171

I've met the same problem when I use ipython notebook .

After I tried upgrade jupyter, then I tried reinstall the ipython. The import error seem fixed.

pip3 uninstall ipython

pip3 install ipython

Upvotes: 3

Pavan

Reputation: 3425

If you've installed jupyter using pip3.

pip3 install --upgrade jupyter_core jupyter_client

Upvotes: 25

piratefache

Reputation: 1368

You need to update jupyter_core and jupyter_client manually from your terminal:

conda update jupyter_core jupyter_client

Upvotes: 63

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