Sometimes the protobuf package might be installed without your involvement. For this, you have two solutions to apply. Try one of the below solutions and it should work.
Solution 1:
You can downgrade the protobuf plugin,
pip install protobuf==3.20.*
Or you can add it to the requirements.txt
file as the last package. Because this will override the previously installed protobuf package.
...
protobuf==3.20.*
Solution 2:
You can set the following environment variable.
export PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python
according to the error description, this might impact your program performance.
but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower
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