MultiScaleDeformableAttention ImportError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package

Error message:

  File "/home/miniconda3/envs/deva/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MultiScaleDeformableAttention-1.0-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/modules/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    from .ms_deform_attn import MSDeformAttn
  File "/home/miniconda3/envs/deva/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MultiScaleDeformableAttention-1.0-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/modules/ms_deform_attn.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ..functions import MSDeformAttnFunction
ImportError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package

In most possible situation:

This project does not depend on multiscaledeformableattention, but you have that installed in your global Python environment. The issue is evidently that that project is abominably mispackaged so it installs a Python package called modules, which conflicts with the modules package in this project.

If you used a separate venv, you wouldn’t have this problem with a globally installed conflicting dependency.

Your options are:

pip uninstall multiscaledeformableattention (but I don’t know what other things you have installed that might depend on it) to get rid of the conflicting package in your install.
use a virtualenv