# Cannot import name 'LlamaTokenizer' from 'transformers'

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/cannot-import-name-llamatokenizer-from-transformers/53267>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [September 2, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/cannot-import-name-llamatokenizer-from-transformers/53267 "2023-09-02T16:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jquantum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@jquantum](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/jquantum)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/cannot-import-name-llamatokenizer-from-transformers/53267/1 "2023-09-02T16:21:48Z")

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!pip install -U transformers

Successfully uninstalled transformers-4.21.3  
Successfully installed huggingface-hub-0.16.4 safetensors-0.3.3 transformers-4.32.1  
Requirement already satisfied: transformers in /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages (4.32.1)

from transformers import LlamaTokenizer

ImportError: cannot import name ‘LlamaTokenizer’ from ‘transformers’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/ **init**.py)

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**Author:** ![dblakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@dblakely](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/dblakely)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/cannot-import-name-llamatokenizer-from-transformers/53267/2 "2023-09-04T14:49:18Z")

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Maybe your pip install command is installing the latest transformers for a different version of python than the one you’re trying to run.

You should confirm that `pip` is installing packages for `python3.9`. Try `pip --version` and check if the path it shows is python3.9.

You might need to instead run `pip3 install -U transformers` or `python3.9 -m pip install -U transformers`

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**Author:** ![jquantum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@jquantum](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/jquantum)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/cannot-import-name-llamatokenizer-from-transformers/53267/3 "2023-09-04T17:23:39Z")

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it was not working on [paperspace.com](http://paperspace.com)  
I tried on colab and it worked

Thanks!