SQL Server2022 machine learning service using python error

Question

My SQL Server version is 2022, and python version is 3.11.

While installing machine learning service in my laptop, it raised "can not import pylink".

Then I install this module using pip. Did not work!

I followed the doc https://learn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/sql/machine-learning/install/sql-machine-learning-services-windows-install-sql-2022?view=sql-server-ver16, but the version of python is 3.10

Does python version matter?

On another laptop, the same version of Server, but the version of python is 3.10, it works fine. And it's strange that it does not have pylink module.

Answer 1

Hi Jerry •,

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Solution: Rollbacking Python version to 3.10 worked.

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Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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Answer 2

Hi Jerry •,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

As I understand, While installing machine learning service in laptop, it raised "can not import pylink".

The issue might be due to version which was raised here: https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/7306

for setuptools, pip and python.

https://github.com/pylint-dev/astroid/pull/1752

Also, please refer to Stackoverflow discussion here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1899436/pylint-unable-to-import-error-how-to-set-pythonpath which might help in your case.

Let us know if this helped.

Thanks