list index out of range exception when importing graph_objs

[miken]

Hi, I installed the latest version of plotly today (2.0.6) and ran into the following error with the first import line:

import plotly.graph_objs as go

It gives me the following error:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/__init__.py in <module>()
     29 from __future__ import absolute_import
     30
---> 31 from plotly import (plotly, dashboard_objs, graph_objs, grid_objs, tools,
     32                     utils, session, offline, colors)
     33 from plotly.version import __version__

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/__init__.py in <module>()
      8
      9 """
---> 10 from . plotly import (
     11     sign_in,
     12     update_plot_options,

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/plotly.py in <module>()
     27 from requests.compat import json as _json
     28
---> 29 from plotly import exceptions, files, session, tools, utils
     30 from plotly.api import v1, v2
     31 from plotly.plotly import chunked_requests

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/tools.py in <module>()
     58
     59 ipython_core_display = optional_imports.get_module('IPython.core.display')
---> 60 matplotlylib = optional_imports.get_module('plotly.matplotlylib')
     61 sage_salvus = optional_imports.get_module('sage_salvus')
     62

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/optional_imports.pyc in get_module(name)
     21     if name not in _not_importable:
     22         try:
---> 23             return import_module(name)
     24         except ImportError:
     25             _not_importable.add(name)

/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.pyc in import_module(name, package)
     35             level += 1
     36         name = _resolve_name(name[level:], package, level)
---> 37     __import__(name)
     38     return sys.modules[name]

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/matplotlylib/__init__.py in <module>()
     12 from __future__ import absolute_import
     13
---> 14 from plotly.matplotlylib.renderer import PlotlyRenderer
     15 from plotly.matplotlylib.mplexporter import Exporter

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/matplotlylib/renderer.py in <module>()
     11 import warnings
     12
---> 13 import plotly.graph_objs as go
     14 from plotly.matplotlylib.mplexporter import Renderer
     15 from plotly.matplotlylib import mpltools

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_objs/__init__.py in <module>()
     12 from __future__ import absolute_import
     13
---> 14 from plotly.graph_objs.graph_objs import *  # this is protected with __all__

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_objs/graph_objs.py in <module>()
     32 import six
     33
---> 34 from plotly import exceptions, graph_reference
     35 from plotly.graph_objs import graph_objs_tools
     36

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py in <module>()
    230
    231
--> 232 @utils.memoize()
    233 def _get_valid_attributes(object_name, parent_object_names):
    234     attributes = get_attributes_dicts(object_name, parent_object_names)

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.pyc in memoize(maxsize)
    490         return result
    491
--> 492     return decorator(_memoize)

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.pyc in decorator(caller, _func)
    256         callerfunc = caller
    257         doc = caller.__doc__
--> 258         fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
    259     else:  # assume caller is an object with a __call__ method
    260         name = caller.__class__.__name__.lower()

IndexError: list index out of range

Please advise on how I can fix this.

[miken]

For what it's worth, when I uninstalled 2.0.6 and installed 2.0.0 this issue went away for anyone wanting a quick fix.

[chriddyp]

Thanks for reporting @miken !

I actually can't reproduce this. @cldougl @Kully can you? I'll leave this issue open for anyone else who might encounter it.

[cldougl]

I can't reproduce either. @miken can you let us know how you upgraded the package (i.e. with pip or anaconda?)

[miken]

Sure. I upgraded using pip install plotly --upgrade. I have two computers: with my iMac 27" it looks like the import went just fine with 2.0.6 version. With my MacBook, that's when the error occurred.

I can run pdb; pdb.pm() to send back assigned values from the error stack if that's helpful, e.g., callerfunc returns an empty list in the memoize() decorator. Let me know how I can help.

[Kkevsterrr]

I'm having the same issue with plotly 2.0.6, and downgrading to 2.0.0 fixed the problem.

File "test.py", line 4, in
import plotly.plotly as py
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/init.py", line 31, in
from plotly import (plotly, dashboard_objs, graph_objs, grid_objs, tools,
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/init.py", line 10, in
from . plotly import (
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/plotly.py", line 29, in
from plotly import exceptions, files, session, tools, utils
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/tools.py", line 60, in
matplotlylib = optional_imports.get_module('plotly.matplotlylib')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/optional_imports.py", line 23, in get_module
return import_module(name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py", line 37, in import_module
import(name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/matplotlylib/init.py", line 14, in
from plotly.matplotlylib.renderer import PlotlyRenderer
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/matplotlylib/renderer.py", line 13, in
import plotly.graph_objs as go
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_objs/init.py", line 14, in
from plotly.graph_objs.graph_objs import * # this is protected with all
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_objs/graph_objs.py", line 34, in
from plotly import exceptions, graph_reference
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in
@utils.memoize()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
return decorator(_memoize)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 258, in decorator
fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0] # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

[ryecao]

Same issue here

import plotly
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/init.py", line 31, in
from plotly import (plotly, dashboard_objs, graph_objs, grid_objs, tools,
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/init.py", line 10, in
from . plotly import (
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/plotly/plotly.py", line 29, in
from plotly import exceptions, files, session, tools, utils
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/tools.py", line 60, in
matplotlylib = optional_imports.get_module('plotly.matplotlylib')
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/optional_imports.py", line 23, in get_module
return import_module(name)
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py", line 37, in import_module
import(name)
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/matplotlylib/init.py", line 14, in
from plotly.matplotlylib.renderer import PlotlyRenderer
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/matplotlylib/renderer.py", line 13, in
import plotly.graph_objs as go
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_objs/init.py", line 14, in
from plotly.graph_objs.graph_objs import * # this is protected with all
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_objs/graph_objs.py", line 34, in
from plotly import exceptions, graph_reference
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in
@utils.memoize()
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
return decorator(_memoize)
File "/Users/ryecao/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 249, in decorator
fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0] # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

[chriddyp]

I suspect that this issue has to do with the decorator requirement: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/blob/master/setup.py#L49

@ryecao @Kkevsterrr @miken - could you run $ pip freeze in the environment that you're installing plotly in and paste in the results? I have a feeling that we need to enforce a specific version of the decorator requirement.

[chriddyp]

@ryecao @Kkevsterrr @miken - In addition, could you also let me know what version of python you're using? Thanks!

[chriddyp]

I have successfully replicated the issue with this requirements.txt:

appdirs==1.4.0
Babel==0.9.6
backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.4.0.2
chardet==2.2.1
click==6.7
configobj==4.7.2
cycler==0.10.0
decorator==3.4.0
enum34==1.1.6
Flask==0.12.2
Flask-Compress==1.4.0
Flask-SeaSurf==0.2.2
functools32==3.2.3.post2
iniparse==0.4
IPy==0.75
ipython-genutils==0.2.0
itsdangerous==0.24
Jinja2==2.7.2
jsonpatch==1.2
jsonpointer==1.9
jsonschema==2.6.0
jupyter-core==4.3.0
kitchen==1.1.1
lxml==3.7.2
MarkupSafe==0.11
matplotlib==2.0.0
nbformat==4.3.0
nose==1.3.0
numpy==1.7.1
packaging==16.8
pandas==0.19.2
pandas-datareader==0.4.0
perf==0.1
plotly==2.0.7
prettytable==0.7.2
pycurl==7.19.0
pyliblzma==0.5.3
pyOpenSSL==0.13.1
pyparsing==2.1.10
pyserial==2.6
python-dateutil==1.5
pytz==2016.10
PyYAML==3.10
requests==2.13.0
requests-file==1.4.2
requests-ftp==0.3.1
six==1.10.0
subprocess32==3.2.7
traitlets==4.3.2
urllib3==1.10.2
virtualenv==15.1.0
Werkzeug==0.12.2

[chriddyp]

It appears the issue is related to decorator<4.0.5. I just tried install decorator from version 3.4.2 upwards. Here is the decorator changelog: https://github.com/micheles/decorator/blob/master/CHANGES.md

Here is how I reproduced the issue:

$ pip install decorator==3.4.2
Collecting decorator==3.4.2
  Downloading decorator-3.4.2.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: decorator
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for decorator ... done
  Stored in directory: /Users/chriddyp/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/a2/ed/a1/350f269ac214a25a2f0d5d6dafea1ec71cdb9cadc2a7434e0a
Successfully built decorator
Installing collected packages: decorator
Successfully installed decorator-3.4.2
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ pip install plotly
Collecting plotly
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): decorator in ./venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from plotly)
Collecting pytz (from plotly)
  Using cached pytz-2017.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requests (from plotly)
  Downloading requests-2.17.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (87kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 90kB 1.9MB/s
Collecting six (from plotly)
  Using cached six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting nbformat>=4.2 (from plotly)
  Using cached nbformat-4.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting idna<2.6,>=2.5 (from requests->plotly)
  Downloading idna-2.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (55kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 57kB 1.4MB/s
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests->plotly)
  Downloading certifi-2017.4.17-py2.py3-none-any.whl (375kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 376kB 739kB/s
Collecting chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 (from requests->plotly)
  Downloading chardet-3.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 135kB 875kB/s
Collecting urllib3<1.22,>=1.21.1 (from requests->plotly)
  Downloading urllib3-1.21.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (131kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 135kB 1.3MB/s
Collecting jupyter-core (from nbformat>=4.2->plotly)
  Using cached jupyter_core-4.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting jsonschema!=2.5.0,>=2.4 (from nbformat>=4.2->plotly)
  Using cached jsonschema-2.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting traitlets>=4.1 (from nbformat>=4.2->plotly)
  Using cached traitlets-4.3.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting ipython-genutils (from nbformat>=4.2->plotly)
  Using cached ipython_genutils-0.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting functools32 (from jsonschema!=2.5.0,>=2.4->nbformat>=4.2->plotly)
Collecting enum34 (from traitlets>=4.1->nbformat>=4.2->plotly)
  Using cached enum34-1.1.6-py2-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pytz, idna, certifi, chardet, urllib3, requests, six, enum34, ipython-genutils, traitlets, jupyter-core, functools32, jsonschema, nbformat, plotly
Successfully installed certifi-2017.4.17 chardet-3.0.3 enum34-1.1.6 functools32-3.2.3.post2 idna-2.5 ipython-genutils-0.2.0 jsonschema-2.6.0 jupyter-core-4.3.0 nbformat-4.3.0 plotly-2.0.8 pytz-2017.2 requests-2.17.3 six-1.10.0 traitlets-4.3.2 urllib3-1.21.1
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"
Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in <module>
    @utils.memoize()
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
    return decorator(_memoize)
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 228, in decorator
    fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range


$ pip install decorator==4.0.0
Collecting decorator==4.0.0
  Downloading decorator-4.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: decorator
  Found existing installation: decorator 3.4.2
    Uninstalling decorator-3.4.2:
      Successfully uninstalled decorator-3.4.2
Successfully installed decorator-4.0.0
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"
Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in <module>
    @utils.memoize()
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
    return decorator(_memoize)
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 247, in decorator
    fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

$ pip install decorator==4.0.1
Collecting decorator==4.0.1
python   Downloading decorator-4.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: decorator
  Found existing installation: decorator 4.0.0
    Uninstalling decorator-4.0.0:
      Successfully uninstalled decorator-4.0.0
-Successfully installed decorator-4.0.1
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"
Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in <module>
    @utils.memoize()
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
    return decorator(_memoize)
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 249, in decorator
    fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

$ pip install decorator==4.0.2
Collecting decorator==4.0.2
  Downloading decorator-4.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: decorator
  Found existing installation: decorator 4.0.1
    Uninstalling decorator-4.0.1:
      Successfully uninstalled decorator-4.0.1
Successfully installed decorator-4.0.2
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  [...]
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in <module>
    @utils.memoize()
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
    return decorator(_memoize)
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 249, in decorator
    fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

$ pip install decorator==4.0.3
Collecting decorator==4.0.3
  Downloading decorator-4.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: decorator
  Found existing installation: decorator 4.0.2
    Uninstalling decorator-4.0.2:
      Successfully uninstalled decorator-4.0.2
Successfully installed decorator-4.0.3
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  [...]
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in <module>
    @utils.memoize()
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
    return decorator(_memoize)
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 249, in decorator
    fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

$ pip install decorator==4.0.4
Collecting decorator==4.0.4
  Using cached decorator-4.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: decorator
  Found existing installation: decorator 4.0.3
    Uninstalling decorator-4.0.3:
      Successfully uninstalled decorator-4.0.3
Successfully installed decorator-4.0.4
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  [...]
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in <module>
    @utils.memoize()
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
    return decorator(_memoize)
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 258, in decorator
    fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

$ pip install decorator==4.0.5
Collecting decorator==4.0.5
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement decorator==4.0.5 (from versions: 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4.0, 3.4.2, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.6, 4.0.8, 4.0.9, 4.0.10, 4.0.11)
No matching distribution found for decorator==4.0.5
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  [...]
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/graph_reference.py", line 232, in <module>
    @utils.memoize()
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plotly/utils.py", line 492, in memoize
    return decorator(_memoize)
  File "/Users/chriddyp/tmp/bp/test/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/decorator.py", line 258, in decorator
    fun = getfullargspec(callerfunc).args[0]  # first arg
IndexError: list index out of range

$ pip install decorator==4.0.6
Collecting decorator==4.0.6
  Downloading decorator-4.0.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: decorator
  Found existing installation: decorator 4.0.4
    Uninstalling decorator-4.0.4:
      Successfully uninstalled decorator-4.0.4
Successfully installed decorator-4.0.6
You are using pip version 8.0.2, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ python -c "import plotly"

[chriddyp]

@ryecao @Kkevsterrr @miken - disregard the earlier requests, I have successfully reproduced the issue. Sorry for the noise!

I pushed a fix here: #762, should be available in version 2.0.9 of the library. You can also just upgrade decorator with pip install decorator --upgrade

[miken]

@chriddyp Thank you. I was gonna respond but I'm using a different computer at work. This computer uses decorator==4.0.11 hence I didn't run into the issue with plotly 2.0.5. Looks like we're all set then.