Troubleshoot setting up an environment

This document describes how to resolve errors that you might encounter when setting up an environment .

Errors when importing the Vertex AI SDK for Python

If you can't import the Vertex AI SDK for Python, it might be caused by one of the following issues:

Outdated version of the Vertex AI SDK for Python

Issue:

You receive an error message similar to the following:

 ImportError: cannot import name 'reasoning_engines' from 'vertexai.preview' 

or

 ImportError: cannot import name 'agent_angines' from 'vertexai' 

Possible cause:

This might happen if the version of your google-cloud-aiplatform package is earlier than 1.82.0 (for agent_engines ) or 1.47.0 (for reasoning_engines ). To check the version of your google-cloud-aiplatform package, run the following command in the terminal:

 pip  
show  
google-cloud-aiplatform 

Recommended solution:

Run the following command in your terminal to update your google-cloud-aiplatform package:

 pip  
install  
google-cloud-aiplatform  
--upgrade 

Verify your updated version is 1.82.0 or later by running the following command:

 pip  
show  
google-cloud-aiplatform 

If you're in a notebook instance (For example, Jupyter or Colab or Workbench), you might need to restart your runtime to use the updated packages.