MS Fabric notebook fails - cannot import name 'Azure Clouds' from 'azure.core'

[linsonabraham001]

• Package Name: azure.mgmt.datafactory
• Package Version: 9.3.0
• Operating System: Windows
• Python Version: default python version available in Fabric spark cluster

Describe the bug
Running Fabric spark notebook to kickoff datafactory pipelines using this library.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create pyspark notebook with below in cells

CELL 1

!pip install azure-mgmt-datafactory -q

CELL 2

from azure.mgmt.datafactory import DataFactoryManagementClient

Expected behavior
Code runs without any error. But it fails with below error

its giving me error
cannot import name 'AzureClouds' from 'azure.core' (/home/trusted-service-user/cluster-env/trident_env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/azure/core/init.py)

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[kashifkhan]

Thank you for the feedback @linsonabraham001. I wasn't able to reproduce this on my side using WSL Ubuntu 24.04 running python 3.10. You might have to check if your venv is in a proper state or a fresh one is needed. The output from my terminal is below, I am able to import without any errors.

(mgmtdatafactory) kashifkhan ~/code/environments  % pip install azure.mgmt.datafactory
Collecting azure.mgmt.datafactory
  Using cached azure_mgmt_datafactory-9.3.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (133 kB)
Collecting isodate>=0.6.1 (from azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached isodate-0.7.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (11 kB)
Collecting azure-mgmt-core>=1.6.0 (from azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached azure_mgmt_core-1.6.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.6 kB)
Collecting typing-extensions>=4.6.0 (from azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached typing_extensions-4.15.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.3 kB)
Collecting azure-core>=1.32.0 (from azure-mgmt-core>=1.6.0->azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached azure_core-1.38.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (48 kB)
Collecting requests>=2.21.0 (from azure-core>=1.32.0->azure-mgmt-core>=1.6.0->azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached requests-2.32.5-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.9 kB)
Collecting charset_normalizer<4,>=2 (from requests>=2.21.0->azure-core>=1.32.0->azure-mgmt-core>=1.6.0->azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Downloading charset_normalizer-3.4.5-cp310-cp310-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (39 kB)
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5 (from requests>=2.21.0->azure-core>=1.32.0->azure-mgmt-core>=1.6.0->azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached idna-3.11-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.4 kB)
Collecting urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 (from requests>=2.21.0->azure-core>=1.32.0->azure-mgmt-core>=1.6.0->azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached urllib3-2.6.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.9 kB)
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests>=2.21.0->azure-core>=1.32.0->azure-mgmt-core>=1.6.0->azure.mgmt.datafactory)
  Using cached certifi-2026.2.25-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.5 kB)
Using cached azure_mgmt_datafactory-9.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (570 kB)
Using cached azure_mgmt_core-1.6.0-py3-none-any.whl (29 kB)
Using cached azure_core-1.38.2-py3-none-any.whl (217 kB)
Using cached isodate-0.7.2-py3-none-any.whl (22 kB)
Using cached requests-2.32.5-py3-none-any.whl (64 kB)
Downloading charset_normalizer-3.4.5-cp310-cp310-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (196 kB)
Using cached idna-3.11-py3-none-any.whl (71 kB)
Using cached urllib3-2.6.3-py3-none-any.whl (131 kB)
Using cached certifi-2026.2.25-py3-none-any.whl (153 kB)
Using cached typing_extensions-4.15.0-py3-none-any.whl (44 kB)
Installing collected packages: urllib3, typing-extensions, isodate, idna, charset_normalizer, certifi, requests, azure-core, azure-mgmt-core, azure.mgmt.datafactory
Successfully installed azure-core-1.38.2 azure-mgmt-core-1.6.0 azure.mgmt.datafactory-9.3.0 certifi-2026.2.25 charset_normalizer-3.4.5 idna-3.11 isodate-0.7.2 requests-2.32.5 typing-extensions-4.15.0 urllib3-2.6.3
(mgmtdatafactory) kashifkhan@CPC-kashi-72N0D ~/code/environments  % python
Python 3.10.20 (main, Mar  3 2026, 09:24:47) [GCC 13.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from azure.mgmt.datafactory import DataFactoryManagementClient
>>>

(mgmtdatafactory) kashifkhan ~/code/environments  % pip list
Package                Version
---------------------- ---------
azure-core             1.38.2
azure-mgmt-core        1.6.0
azure-mgmt-datafactory 9.3.0
certifi                2026.2.25
charset-normalizer     3.4.5
idna                   3.11
isodate                0.7.2
pip                    26.0.1
requests               2.32.5
setuptools             79.0.1
typing_extensions      4.15.0
urllib3                2.6.3

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