AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'

Hello. I was able to use ‘ludwig experiment’ on the titanic’s datasets on kaggle, just as described here https://uber.github.io/ludwig/examples/ using the suggested yaml file.

I also tried to use it to train a dataset, but got this on terminal:

$ ludwig train --data_csv train.csv --model_definition modelo.yaml

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Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/renatochacon/ludwig/venv/bin/ludwig”, line 11, in <module> load_entry_point(‘ludwig==0.1.0’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘ludwig’)() File “/home/renatochacon/ludwig/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ludwig-0.1.0-py3.5.egg/ludwig/cli.py”, line 86, in main File “/home/renatochacon/ludwig/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ludwig-0.1.0-py3.5.egg/ludwig/cli.py”, line 64, in init File “/home/renatochacon/ludwig/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ludwig-0.1.0-py3.5.egg/ludwig/cli.py”, line 70, in train File “/home/renatochacon/ludwig/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ludwig-0.1.0-py3.5.egg/ludwig/train.py”, line 729, in cli File “/home/renatochacon/ludwig/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ludwig-0.1.0-py3.5.egg/ludwig/train.py”, line 170, in full_train File “/home/renatochacon/ludwig/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ludwig-0.1.0-py3.5.egg/ludwig/utils/defaults.py”, line 137, in merge_with_defaults AttributeError: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘get’

[w4nderlust]

@vreyespue it’s a different error. Can you please open a separate issue about it with instructions on how to reproduce it? I run the simple_model_training.py in the examples/titanic, which I believe is what you were running, and it works fine.

[vreyespue]

@w4nderlust I think in the last version of ludwig (0.4) this is happening again. I get as well the mentioned error message, i.e.

$ python3 simple_model_training.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "simple_model_training.py", line 25, in <module>
    logging_level=logging.INFO)
  File "lib/python3.7/site-packages/ludwig/api.py", line 193, in __init__
    self.backend = initialize_backend(backend or config.get('backend'))
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'

Could you maybe double check? If so, should we reopen this issue, or create a new one? Many thanks and best regards.