partially initialized module 'fiona' has no attribute '_loading' (most likely due to a circular import)

[TheoChristiaanse]

Expected behavior and actual behavior.

I expected it just to import

Steps to reproduce the problem.

import fiona 

Error:

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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
/var/folders/6y/ggc338n574d3_xyw2zbnkc6m0000gp/T/ipykernel_1610/1102285635.py in <module>
----> 1 import fiona

/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fiona/__init__.py in <module>
     83 
     84 import fiona._loading
---> 85 with fiona._loading.add_gdal_dll_directories():
     86     from fiona.collection import BytesCollection, Collection
     87     from fiona.drvsupport import supported_drivers

AttributeError: partially initialized module 'fiona' has no attribute '_loading' (most likely due to a circular import)

Operating system

Mac OS X 11.5.1

Fiona and GDAL version and provenance

Fiona via pip version 1.8.20
GDAL 3.3.1 installed via Homebrew

[TheoChristiaanse]

Found the solution

#944 (comment)

[RBhupi]

I am getting the same error with the following import

import glob
import os
import datetime

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pyart
import xarray as xr
from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter
import pandas as pd
import geopandas as gpd
import act
import fiona

---

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [11], in <cell line: 13>()
11 import geopandas as gpd
12 import act
---> 13 import fiona

File ~/opt/anaconda3/envs/pyart/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fiona/init.py:85, in
82 os.environ["PATH"] = os.environ["PATH"] + ";" + libdir
84 import fiona._loading
---> 85 with fiona._loading.add_gdal_dll_directories():
86 from fiona.collection import BytesCollection, Collection
87 from fiona.drvsupport import supported_drivers

AttributeError: partially initialized module 'fiona' has no attribute '_loading' (most likely due to a circular import)

Please, also check $conda list output Hope this helps.