PanicException: env_logger::init_from_env should not be called after logger initialized: SetLoggerError(())

Question

When I try to run a line of code:

from transformers import pipeline

I am getting the panicException as follow as:

PanicException: env_logger::init_from_env should not be called after logger initialized: SetLoggerError(()) in Python

Answer 1

Looks like this is a Rust module that's packaged with python. It uses env_logger, which needs to be set before the logger is created in Python. That's why this happened. It looks like a a bug in the library itself.