ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'past'

[Benazid]

**Hi all,

I need some help with the folowing : I installed Subsai as showed in the Readme file, and then I ran the example script in python :**

`from subsai import SubsAI

file = 'C:/Users/acer/Desktop/vocalrem/Final/video1.mp4'
subs_ai = SubsAI()
model = subs_ai.create_model('openai/whisper', {'model_type': 'base'})
subs = subs_ai.transcribe(file, model)
subs.save('test1.srt')`

And I got the following in my console :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\acer\Documents\VIDEO MAKER\Video_Maker.py", line 1, in
from subsai import SubsAI
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\subsai_init_.py", line 1, in
from subsai.main import SubsAI, Tools
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\subsai\main.py", line 27, in
from subsai.configs import AVAILABLE_MODELS
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\subsai\configs.py", line 8, in
from ffsubsync.constants import DEFAULT_MAX_SUBTITLE_SECONDS, DEFAULT_START_SECONDS, DEFAULT_MAX_OFFSET_SECONDS,
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\ffsubsync_init_.py", line 21, in
from .ffsubsync import main # noqa
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\ffsubsync\ffsubsync.py", line 34, in
from ffsubsync.speech_transformers import (
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\ffsubsync\speech_transformers.py", line 11, in
import ffmpeg
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\ffmpeg_init_.py", line 2, in
from . import nodes
File "C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\ffmpeg\nodes.py", line 3, in
from past.builtins import basestring
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'past'
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**I tried to fix it in every way I could think of, but to no avail (I have "Future" library installed).

Do you have any suggestions. Thanks in advance.**

[abdeladim-s]

Hi @Benazid,

Basically, installing the future module should solve this past issue. Which is weird why it is not working!

I can see from the error that you are using Python 3.11. I suggest to downgrade to 3.10 and retry ? Maybe ffmpeg-python is not yet compatible!