"Import error:No module named Cython.Build" while training on Google Cloud ML Engine

Question

I am trying to train a model on Google Cloud ML Engine with this command. I installed tensorflow with Anaconda.But while I training model , this error appears:

-Import error:No module named Cython.Build Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-0eA9cj/pycocotools/

I also added this line on setup.py :

"REQUIRED_PACKAGES = ['Pillow>=1.0', 'Matplotlib>=2.1', 'Cython>=0.28', 'pycocotools>=2.0.0' But the problem is not solved,is there any idea to solve this problem? Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

Same error for me, This is what worked for me, I added an extra --packages to my gcloud command, the packages i've downloaded from pip web repository as zip files and added as the below flag

--packages your-folder/Cython-0.28.1.tar.gz,your-folder/pycocotools-2.0.0.tar.gz --packages <your other object-detection and slim packages here>