Conda Install failed

When installing with conda (as described in the guide), the dask package is not installed correctly.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a new conda environment conda create --name myenv
2. Activate the environment conda activate myenv
3. follow the anaconda tutorial on https://automl.github.io/auto-sklearn/master/installation.html#conda-forge
4. start python interpreter and enter >>> from autosklearn.classification import AutoSklearnClassifier
5. see error

Workaround

Just install dask after step 3.

conda install dask

Actual behavior, stacktrace or logfile

>>> from autosklearn.classification import AutoSklearnClassifier Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/lukas/anaconda3/envs/import_test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/autosklearn/classification.py", line 1, in <module> from autosklearn.estimators import AutoSklearnClassifier # noqa (imported but unused) File "/home/lukas/anaconda3/envs/import_test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/autosklearn/estimators.py", line 6, in <module> import dask.distributed File "/home/lukas/anaconda3/envs/import_test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dask/distributed.py", line 3, in <module> from distributed import * File "/home/lukas/anaconda3/envs/import_test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/distributed/__init__.py", line 4, in <module> from .actor import Actor, ActorFuture File "/home/lukas/anaconda3/envs/import_test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/distributed/actor.py", line 6, in <module> from .client import Future, default_client File "/home/lukas/anaconda3/envs/import_test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/distributed/client.py", line 30, in <module> from dask.compatibility import apply ImportError: cannot import name 'apply' from 'dask.compatibility' (/home/lukas/anaconda3/envs/import_test/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dask/compatibility.py)

Environment and installation:

Please give details about your installation:

• Ubuntu 20.04
• conda version==4.10.1
• python 3.8.8
• autosklearn version 0.14.0

[eddiebergman]

Hi @BastianZim,

Thanks a lot for doing this! It appears that @Louquinze was able to create a new environment and it installed without issue. I will close this issue.

If anyone else run’s into this issue, please feel free to re-open the discussion.

[mfeurer]

@BastianZim it appears that this is an issue with the conda package for Auto-sklearn not specifying a dependency correctly. Would you mind having a look into this?