From d0fd7154c599cd282e6dc7e060b87b90f1e06c93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sylvain Gugger <35901082+sgugger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:42:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Catch import datasets common errors (#7456)

---
 src/transformers/file_utils.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/transformers/file_utils.py b/src/transformers/file_utils.py
index 9c9578dd48..f3844cef79 100644
--- a/src/transformers/file_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/file_utils.py
@@ -68,8 +68,12 @@ except (ImportError, AssertionError):
 try:
     import datasets  # noqa: F401
 
-    _datasets_available = True
-    logger.debug(f"Succesfully imported datasets version {datasets.__version__}")
+    # Check we're not importing a "datasets" directory somewhere
+    _datasets_available = hasattr(datasets, "__version__") and hasattr(datasets, "load_dataset")
+    if _datasets_available:
+        logger.debug(f"Succesfully imported datasets version {datasets.__version__}")
+    else:
+        logger.debug("Imported a datasets object but this doesn't seem to be the 🤗 datasets library.")
 
 except ImportError:
     _datasets_available = False