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Outdated version of the Vertex AI SDK for Python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.

