Setting up the 01_intro.ipynb in Colab

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I have been trying to follow the instructions for running the first notebook in Colab for the Practical Deep Learning for Coders to no avail.
Following the instructions for Colab here: https://course.fast.ai/start_colab.html I open the first notebook https://colab.research.google.com/github/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/01_intro.ipynb and set it to use GPU.
Afterwards, I try running the first command and get the following error:

ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
1 #hide
2 get_ipython().system(‘pip install -Uqq fastbook’)
----> 3 import fastbook
4 fastbook.setup_book()

10 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/onnx/utils.py in ()
19 from torch.jit import _unique_state_dict
20 from torch.onnx import ONNX_ARCHIVE_MODEL_PROTO_NAME, ExportTypes, OperatorExportTypes, TrainingMode
—> 21 from torch._C import ListType, OptionalType, _propagate_and_assign_input_shapes, _assign_output_shapes, _check_onnx_proto
22
23

ImportError: cannot import name ‘_assign_output_shapes’

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Any hints? Are there any changes in the documentation that I am missing, as it is quite frustrating to not be able to even run the first part of the introductory notebook.
Thank you in advance.

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Can you share the solution please, I am also facing the same issue

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Hi! I think that they fixed the issue in the latest iteration of the fastbook notebooks. So I don’t think you need to do anything, just run the notebook. Are you still facing issues?