send_action's pipe_io.writeline error

Hi! I’m interested on replicating your paper results but I’m hitting a problem when sending action values to the pipeline. Below are some information about my efforts:

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04.02 (on VirtualBox, host is Windows 10)
• Version: EnergyPlus v8.8.0
• Patch: Followed the patch instructions using 8.8.0 patch version and it seems to be working well (except for this problem)
• Command: poetry run time python3 -m baselines_energyplus.trpo_mpi.run_energyplus --num-timesteps 10000000

Please see the traceback message below.

From the traceback, it seems that line 213 from energyplus_env.py formats the action into a string. However, the action value contains a list, hence the error. Is this really the expected behavior or did I miss a step?

I hope for your help as I’m really eager to test your testbed out! Thank you.

[antoine-galataud]

@AlejandroCN7 this will be solved with #54. @takaomoriyama let me know if there’s anything else to update in it.

[AlejandroCN7]

I have had the same problem in version 9.3.0, adding action = action[0] as @antoine-galataud comments solves the problem (in if action is not None block)