# Cannot init Rasa Open source after installation due to ImportError
**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [December 28, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300 "2021-12-28T04:40:24Z")
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### Author:  [@nightjean](https://forum.rasa.com/u/nightjean)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/1 "2021-12-28T04:40:24Z")
Hi, I followed the installation guide and pip3 installed rasa on my mac. However, when I ran “rasa init”, this erro keeps popping up. python = 3.8.5 Can you please help?
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### Author:  [@nightjean](https://forum.rasa.com/u/nightjean)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/2 "2021-12-28T05:54:57Z")
I just commented this line in utils.py, and it seems working.
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### Author:  [@xtremecom](https://forum.rasa.com/u/xtremecom)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2021, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/3 "2021-12-28T07:41:12Z")
I had the same error and managed to initialize rasa by commenting this line in utils.py. However, when I try to train the rasa bot, another error message appeared. The earlier error and this error are all related to importing sanic functions and I wonder why.
File “C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\installingrasa\lib\site-packages\rasa\core\channels\rasa\_chat.py”, line 6, in from sanic.exceptions import abort ImportError: cannot import name ‘abort’ from ‘sanic.exceptions’ (C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\installingrasa\lib\site-packages\sanic\exceptions.py)
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### Author:  [@nightjean](https://forum.rasa.com/u/nightjean)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2021, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/4 "2021-12-28T07:42:37Z")
A similar error pops out when training the initial model. "ImportError: cannot import name ‘abort’ from ‘sanic.exceptions’ ". It seems sanic package has not been updated in rasa while many sanic functions are deprecated.
Can anyone please advise? Shall I install rasa 2.x instead?
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### Author:  [@Edictory](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Edictory)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/5 "2021-12-28T21:53:49Z")
I had a similar error but @nik202’s advice to downgrade sanic to `sanic==21.9.3` worked for me.
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### Author:  [@nightjean](https://forum.rasa.com/u/nightjean)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/7 "2021-12-29T00:47:31Z")
just tried and it worked, thank you!
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### Author:  [@nik202](https://forum.rasa.com/u/nik202)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/8 "2021-12-29T11:00:39Z")
@Edictory nice 👍 you helped in a right way to nightjean 😌. Thanks
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### Author:  [@boychild2197](https://forum.rasa.com/u/boychild2197)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/cannot-init-rasa-open-source-after-installation-due-to-importerror/50300/9 "2022-02-09T10:38:39Z")
This helped me.Thanx so much