'fire' import in error when running fastai/courses/dl2/imdb_scripts/finetune_lm.py

Part 2 & Alumni (2018)
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I am following https://github.com/fastai/fastai/blob/master/courses/dl2/imdb_scripts/README.md

Here is my command line:
python finetune_lm.py data/imdb data/wt103 1 25 --lm-id pretrain_wt103

Here is the error (Google did not give any interesting solution about the problem):

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “finetune_lm.py”, line 1, in
import fire
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘fire’

I installed fast.ai on an AWS virtual machine, by following this post: Fastai v0.7 install issues thread
In my environment, the notebook https://github.com/fastai/fastai/tree/master/courses/dl2/imdb.ipynb is working fine, which shows that my install is “fine”. (the notebook does not contain that ‘import fire’ statement, contrary to the .py file)

2

you need to install fire
pip install fire to run the scripts

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Ok thx. Now I get this:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fastai'

The notebook runs fine, because the required ‘fastai.text’ python files are located in the same folder as the notebook (‘fastai/courses/dl2/fastai/text’).
But finetune_lm.py is in folder ‘fastai/courses/dl2/imdb_scripts’, and does not see the ‘fastai.text…’ files

What do I have to do, please ?

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based on my experience, you have to install
fastai==0.7.0
I think this must be done using pip.
the imdb_scripts code on github maybe deprecated
it doesn’t work with latest fastai

5

try pip install fastai==0.7.0

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