ImportError: Cannot Import Name 'formats' After Installing pycortex on Linux

[seungju9810]

Hello, I am a graduate student studying neuroscience. Thank you for developing the excellent tool, Pycortex.

I installed Pycortex on a Linux server, and when I tried importing cortex, I encountered the following error.
ImportError: cannot import name 'formats' from partially initialized module 'cortex' (most likely due to a circular import) (~/pycortex/cortex/init.py)

I haven't modified anything after installing Pycortex, so I am unsure what could be causing this issue.
I would greatly appreciate any guidance on how to resolve this error. Thank you in advance for your help!

[mvdoc]

Hi @seungju9810,

Make sure to run your ipython session from a different directory than the directory with the pycortex git repository. Otherwise python will try to import the modules from the git repository (in ~/SpeechDecoding/pycortex), rather than from the correct directory containing all installed packages for your python environment.

If that doesn't solve the problem, make sure to install Pycortex from pypi with python -m pip install pycortex.