seed_everything in PyTorch Lightning 2.0

[jxtngx]

A Discord community member received the following ImportError when using seed_everything.

[jingyanliao]

The stack trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "train.py", line 18, in <module>
    import pytorch_lightning as pl
  File "/home/jing-yan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
    __import__("pkg_resources").declare_namespace(__name__)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2285, in declare_namespace
    _handle_ns(packageName, path_item)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2218, in _handle_ns
    loader.load_module(packageName)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from pytorch_lightning.utilities.seed import seed_everything  # noqa: E402
ImportError: cannot import name 'seed_everything' from 'pytorch_lightning.utilities.seed' (/home/jing-yan/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytorch_lightning/utilities/seed.py)

Just for completeness, my environment is shown below.

Thanks!

[ZubairKhan001]

If you're using a Pytorch lightning version above v1.8.0, update your import statement

from lightning_fabric.utilities.seed import seed_everything