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Unable to Import ‘IEPlugin’ Class in OpenVINO™ Toolkit 2021 on Google* Colab Notebook

Content Type: Error Messages | Article ID: 000090202 | Last Reviewed: 03/05/2025

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Used IEPlugin in OpenVINO™ toolkit 2021 on Google* Colab Notebook.
Encountered:
ImportError: cannot import name 'IEPlugin' from 'openvino.inference_engine'

ie_api.IEPlugin class has been deprecated starting from OpenVINO™ 2021.1 release.
Import openvino.inference_engine.IECore class instead to represent an Inference Engine entity and allow manipulation of plugins.

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Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor Software OpenVINO™ toolkit Performance Libraries

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