Unexpected error: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'copy'
in OpenSesame
Hi,
I've experiencing an odd error. Here the error message of just running the extended template:
The experiment did not finish normally for the following reason: Unexpected error Details item-stack: experiment[run].practice_loop[run] exception type: AttributeError exception message: 'list' object has no attribute 'copy' time: Fri Jul 19 18:41:41 2019 Traceback (also in debug window) File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libqtopensesame\misc\process.py", line 157, in run exp.run() File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\experiment.py", line 456, in run self.items.execute(self.var.start) File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\item_store.py", line 103, in execute self.run(name) File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\item_store.py", line 122, in run self[name].run() File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\sequence.py", line 51, in run self.experiment.items.run(_item) File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\item_store.py", line 122, in run self[name].run() File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\loop.py", line 341, in run self.live_dm = self._create_live_datamatrix() File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\libopensesame\loop.py", line 209, in _create_live_datamatrix dm <<= operations.shuffle(src_dm)[:i] File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\datamatrix\operations.py", line 517, in shuffle _rowid = Index(obj._rowid) File "C:\OpenSesame3-2-8\OpenSesame\lib\site-packages\datamatrix\_datamatrix\_index.py", line 54, in __init__ self._l = start._l.copy() AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'copy'
This occurs for any of my scripts including just running plain OpenSesame templates.
I am using OpenSesame 3.2.8. .zip version. I only experienced this error after deinstalling Anaconda with Python 2 and reinstalling it with Python 3 and using Visual Studio Code / PyCharm. Not quite sure how these are related and why it also affects the standalone version of OpenSesame (I expect it comes with its own Python packages) but I just thought it might help figuring out what the error is...
Thanks,
Michel
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Hi Michel,
My guess is that, for some reason due to the Anaconda installation/ deinstallation ,
numpyis broken on your system. In addition, there seems to be a bug in older versions ofDataMatrix(still shipped with OpenSesame 3.2.8) that break whennumpyis not available, even it should fall back to a non-numpy system.Could that be it? What happens if you try to import
numpyin the debug window? If that's indeed it, then as a workaround, you could either re-installnumpyor upgradepython-datamatrixto the latest version.Cheers!
Sebastiaan
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Good call! I cannot import numpy or any module that uses numpy in the debug window. After using
print(os.environ['PATH'])in the debug window, I found the pathC:\Users\miche\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\numpy\.libs. And low and behold, there was an old python 2.7 numpy module chilling on my hard drive. Seems like OpenSesame is searching default for some python site-package folder and prefers python 2.7? Either way, removing this folder seems to have fixed it.Thanks!
Now that we are kinda talking about it: Do you plan to implement an option to choose the python environment in which you want to run Open Sesame (standalone) in?
> Now that we are kinda talking about it: Do you plan to implement an option to choose the python environment in which you want to run Open Sesame (standalone) in?
I have been thinking about something along those lines, yes, in the context of a slightly different project that I've been working on. But it's tricky (though not impossible), because OpenSesame is obviously running in a Python environment already. So we'll see.
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