[Bug] need to rename typing.py

[shanmo]

Prerequisite

• I have searched Issues and Discussions but cannot get the expected help.
• I have read the FAQ documentation but cannot get the expected help.
• The bug has not been fixed in the latest version (dev) or latest version (1.x).

Task

I'm using the official example scripts/configs for the officially supported tasks/models/datasets.

Branch

1.1x branch https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection3d/tree/1.1

Environment

sys.platform: linux
Python: 3.8.15 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Nov 22 2022, 08:49:35) [GCC 10.4.0]
CUDA available: True
numpy_random_seed: 2147483648
GPU 0: NVIDIA T1200 Laptop GPU
CUDA_HOME: /home/mambaforge/envs/openmmlab
NVCC: Cuda compilation tools, release 11.7, V11.7.99
GCC: gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0
PyTorch: 1.13.0
PyTorch compiling details: PyTorch built with:

GCC 9.3
C++ Version: 201402
Intel(R) oneAPI Math Kernel Library Version 2022.1-Product Build 20220311 for Intel(R) 64 architecture applications
Intel(R) MKL-DNN v2.6.0 (Git Hash 52b5f107dd9cf10910aaa19cb47f3abf9b349815)
OpenMP 201511 (a.k.a. OpenMP 4.5)
LAPACK is enabled (usually provided by MKL)
NNPACK is enabled
CPU capability usage: AVX2
CUDA Runtime 11.7
NVCC architecture flags: -gencode;arch=compute_37,code=sm_37;-gencode;arch=compute_50,code=sm_50;-gencode;arch=compute_60,code=sm_60;-gencode;arch=compute_61,code=sm_61;-gencode;arch=compute_70,code=sm_70;-gencode;arch=compute_75,code=sm_75;-gencode;arch=compute_80,code=sm_80;-gencode;arch=compute_86,code=sm_86;-gencode;arch=compute_37,code=compute_37
CuDNN 8.5
Magma 2.6.1
Build settings: BLAS_INFO=mkl, BUILD_TYPE=Release, CUDA_VERSION=11.7, CUDNN_VERSION=8.5.0, CXX_COMPILER=/opt/rh/devtoolset-9/root/usr/bin/c++, CXX_FLAGS= -fabi-version=11 -Wno-deprecated -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -DUSE_PTHREADPOOL -fopenmp -DNDEBUG -DUSE_KINETO -DUSE_FBGEMM -DUSE_QNNPACK -DUSE_PYTORCH_QNNPACK -DUSE_XNNPACK -DSYMBOLICATE_MOBILE_DEBUG_HANDLE -DEDGE_PROFILER_USE_KINETO -O2 -fPIC -Wno-narrowing -Wall -Wextra -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-type-limits -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wunused-local-typedefs -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-result -Wno-strict-overflow -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-psabi -Wno-error=pedantic -Wno-error=redundant-decls -Wno-error=old-style-cast -fdiagnostics-color=always -faligned-new -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-math-errno -fno-trapping-math -Werror=format -Werror=cast-function-type -Wno-stringop-overflow, LAPACK_INFO=mkl, PERF_WITH_AVX=1, PERF_WITH_AVX2=1, PERF_WITH_AVX512=1, TORCH_VERSION=1.13.0, USE_CUDA=ON, USE_CUDNN=ON, USE_EXCEPTION_PTR=1, USE_GFLAGS=OFF, USE_GLOG=OFF, USE_MKL=ON, USE_MKLDNN=ON, USE_MPI=OFF, USE_NCCL=ON, USE_NNPACK=ON, USE_OPENMP=ON, USE_ROCM=OFF,

TorchVision: 0.14.0
OpenCV: 4.6.0
MMEngine: 0.3.2
MMDetection: 3.0.0rc4
MMDetection3D: 1.1.0rc2+7fd57b1
spconv2.0: False

Reproduces the problem - code sample

NA

Reproduces the problem - command or script

python mmdet3d/utils/collect_env.py

Reproduces the problem - error message

  File "/home/workspace/mmdetection3d-1.1/mmdet3d/utils/typing.py", line 3, in <module>
    from typing import List, Optional, Union
ImportError: cannot import name 'List' from partially initialized module 'typing' (most likely due to a circular import) (/home/workspace/mmdetection3d-1.1/mmdet3d/utils/typing.py)

Additional information

Need to rename mmdetection3d/mmdet3d/utils/typing.py

[JingweiZhang12]

Have fixed it in #2114