ImportError: cannot import name '_essentia' from 'essentia'

[camillenoufi]

Hello! I've circulated around many of the existing questions/solutions pertaining to import, but still no luck:

/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/essentia/init.py in
----> 1 from . import _essentia
2 import sys as _sys
3 from ._essentia import reset
4 from .common import Pool, array, ones, zeros
5 from .progress import Progress

ImportError: cannot import name '_essentia' from 'essentia' (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/essentia/init.py)

I recently installed Essentia via homebrew on to OSX Catalina 10.15.3 with Python 3.8 via:

$ brew tap MTG/essentia
$ brew install essentia --HEAD

It installed to '/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/essentia/' and I've added:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages

as well as

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

to my ~/.bash-profile, the latter per the Essentia documentation instructions. I get the same errors in a normal python3 environment as well as in an iPython/jupyter environment. I've also tried the sys.path.append(.) route. I am working within a conda environment.

Any tips? Thanks in advance!

[KyrillosL]

Hi,
I'm also facing this issue on macOs 10.15, python 3.8.3
Working fine on a Ubuntu virtual machine and paramiko

[dbogdanov]

@camillenoufi Just in case, are you using python@3.8 installed by brew? (/usr/local/opt/python@3.8/bin/python3)

We've just updated the homebrew formula, you can try again to see if it works for you.