"No idea what *something* is!" after running fabric2

I am new to fabric and having trouble getting it to work. I installed it via pip3 first when I tried to run it I was getting Command ‘fab’ not found, I eventually found it in /home/me/.local/bin/fab2.

Is this the correct place?

Second whenever I run it like so

/home/me/.local/bin/fab2 version

I get

(2, 3, 1)
2.3.1
No idea what 'version' is!

import fabric
if hasattr(fabric, '__version__'):
    # For fabric2
    print(fabric.__version_info__)
    print(fabric.__version__)   # for a version tuple
else:
    # for fabric1
    from fabric.api import *
    print(env.version)

Is /home/me/.local/bin/fab2 the correct location? What is ‘No idea what ‘version’ is!’ why does it show up?

[standaloneSA]

@ajmcateer, I had this problem as well. The issue is that thew new fabric task method (as discussed here - http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.14/usage/tasks.html) is to use the @task decorator. The equivalent "Hello World’ example is:

from fabric import task

@task
def hello(ctx):
  print("Hello World")

Running ‘fab hello’ yields the expected output.

[ryanjdillon]

If your issue is that you receive this error for a task argument, it may be that you are not passing the argument in its correct format, but as how you have your task named.

fab mytask --task-name value

not

fab mytask --task_name value

I realize this isn’t spot on the issue, but since I ended up here, I’ll leave this for anybody else who has my same issue.