torchtext.data.Field is not working but torchtext.legacy.data.Field is! The documentation doesn't help either

[aashish-chaubey]

❓ Questions and Help

Made a fresh installation of torchtext and followed the documentation to use the Field

from torchtext import data

For some reason, this doesn't work and throws the following error

AttributeError: module 'torchtext.data' has no attribute 'Field'

However, this works

from torchtext.legacy import data

The specification of my systems are mentioned below.

torchtext version:  0.11.2
torch version:  1.10.2+cu102
OS:  Linux 5.14.0-1024-oem #26-Ubuntu 
Python verson:  3.8.10 (default, Nov 26 2021, 20:14:08) 
[GCC 9.3.0]

Description
By using the legacy, I am able to create the field. Also, I read that this is usually the case when there is a version mismatch. Any help?

[Nayef211]

Hi @aashish-chaubey. I believe the Field class has been moved to the legacy folder since torchtext 0.9.0 release. Here are the release notes that go into more detail about this https://github.com/pytorch/text/tree/v0.11.2/torchtext/legacy#legacy. The legacy folder is deleted altogether in #1437 and will not be available in torchtext 0.12.0 onwards.