rasa interactive training is failing

Rasa version:1.0.1

Python version: 3.6.7

Operating system (windows, osx, …): ubuntu 16.04

Issue: I am trying to run the interactive training on the latest version of rasa. I

(rasa_15) sfrplindia1@sfrplindia1-OptiPlex-7020:~/chatbot$ rasa interactive -d domain.yml -m models -c config.yml --data data --verbose --endpoints endpoints.yml

2019-05-29 12:17:24 INFO     root  - Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.6/lib2to3/Grammar.txt
2019-05-29 12:17:24 INFO     root  - Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.6/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt

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2019-05-29 12:17:24 WARNING  rasa.core.interpreter  - No NLU model found. Using RegexInterpreter instead.
2019-05-29 12:17:24.816998: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:141] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX2 FMA
2019-05-29 12:17:24.821672: I tensorflow/core/platform/profile_utils/cpu_utils.cc:94] CPU Frequency: 3591990000 Hz
2019-05-29 12:17:24.822324: I tensorflow/compiler/xla/service/service.cc:150] XLA service 0x66de000 executing computations on platform Host. Devices:
2019-05-29 12:17:24.822342: I tensorflow/compiler/xla/service/service.cc:158]   StreamExecutor device (0): <undefined>, <undefined>
Bot loaded. Visualisation at http://localhost:5006/visualization.html.
Type a message and press enter (press 'Ctr-c' to exit). 
Processed Story Blocks: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 1804.78it/s, # trackers=1]
? Your input -> HI                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
? Your NLU model classified '/HI' with intent 'HI' and there are no entities, is this correct?  Yes                                                                                                                                                                            
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Chat History

 #    Bot                     You        
─────────────────────────────────────────
 1    action_listen                      
─────────────────────────────────────────
 2                                   /HI 
                         intent: HI 1.00 


Current slots: 
        date_slot: None, dept: None, doc_slot: None, name: None, requested_slot: None, time: None, time_slot: None

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2019-05-29 12:17:29 ERROR    rasa.core.training.interactive  - An exception occurred while recording messages.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py", line 1349, in record_messages
    endpoint, sender_id, finetune, sender_ids, plot_file
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py", line 883, in _predict_till_next_listen
    sender_ids, plot_file, endpoint, unconfirmed=[ActionExecuted(action_name)]
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py", line 1274, in _plot_trackers
    event_sequences[-1], event_sequences, output_file=None, max_history=2
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/visualization.py", line 467, in visualize_neighborhood
    else sanitize(message.get("intent", {})).get("name", "  ?  "),
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/visualization.py", line 364, in sanitize
    return re.sub(r"""[&\\\<\>"'%();+]""", "", s)
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/re.py", line 191, in sub
    return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
2019-05-29 12:17:29 ERROR    asyncio  - Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished coro=<_serve_application.<locals>.run_interactive_io() done, defined at /home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py:1391> exception=TypeError('expected string or bytes-like object',)>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py", line 1399, in run_interactive_io
    sender_id=uuid.uuid4().hex,
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py", line 1349, in record_messages
    endpoint, sender_id, finetune, sender_ids, plot_file
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py", line 883, in _predict_till_next_listen
    sender_ids, plot_file, endpoint, unconfirmed=[ActionExecuted(action_name)]
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/interactive.py", line 1274, in _plot_trackers
    event_sequences[-1], event_sequences, output_file=None, max_history=2
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/visualization.py", line 467, in visualize_neighborhood
    else sanitize(message.get("intent", {})).get("name", "  ?  "),
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/training/visualization.py", line 364, in sanitize
    return re.sub(r"""[&\\\<\>"'%();+]""", "", s)
  File "/home/sfrplindia1/Work/SantaFe/Raghuram/chatbots/rasa_15/lib/python3.6/re.py", line 191, in sub
    return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

Content of configuration file (config.yml):

language: en

pipeline:
  - name: WhitespaceTokenizer
  - name: CRFEntityExtractor
  - name: EntitySynonymMapper
  - name: CountVectorsFeaturizer
    token_pattern: (?u)\b\w+\b
  - name: EmbeddingIntentClassifier
  - name: DucklingHTTPExtractor
    url: http://localhost:8000
    dimensions:
      - time

policies:
  - name: KerasPolicy
    epochs: 100
    max_history: 5
  - name: MemoizationPolicy
    max_history: 5
  - name: FormPolicy 

Content of domain file (domain.yml) (if used & relevant):

slots:
    dept:
      type: text
    date_slot:
      type: unfeaturized
    time_slot:
      type: unfeaturized
    doc_slot:
      type: unfeaturized
    time:
      type: unfeaturized
    name:
      type : unfeaturized
    requested_slot:
      type: unfeaturized  

intents:
    - schedule_appointment:
        use_entities : True
    - greet
    - bye
    - affirmative
 
entities:
    - dept
    - time
    - name
templates:
    utter_greet:
    - 'Hello there ! How can I help?'
    utter_bye:
    - 'Bye! Take care'
    utter_ask_dept:
    - 'With which speciality?'
    utter_ask_date:
    - 'On which date would you like to schedule the appointment?'
    utter_ask_time:
    - 'At what time would you like to schedule the appointment?'
    utter_ask_name:
    - 'In whose name would you like to schedule the appointment?'
    utter_incorrect_dept:
    - 'Sorry this speciality does not exist. You will have to enter the speciality again.'
    utter_incorrect_time:
    - 'Sorry! No doctor is available at date and time that you have entered. Please enter the date and time again'
    utter_incorrect_date:
    - 'Sorry the date you have entered is incorrect. Please enter the date and time again'    
    utter_schedule_appointment:
    - 'Shall I confirm your appointment with {doc_slot} in the {dept} department on {date_slot} in the {time_slot}?'
    utter_affirmative:
    - 'Thank you! I am confirming your appointment with {doc_slot} in the {dept} department on {date_slot} in the {time_slot}'
    utter_finish:
    - 'thank you for entering the details'   
    
actions:
- utter_greet
- utter_bye
- utter_schedule_appointment
- utter_affirmative
- utter_incorrect_dept
- action_bye
- action_slot_reset
- action_split_date_time
- validate_inputs
- utter_ask_dept
- utter_ask_date
- utter_ask_name
- utter_incorrect_time

    
    

forms:
- appointment_form

My stories.md contains only

## Generated Story -2827604014098265773
* greet
    - utter_greet

[oldmonkABA]

Thanks… works fine now

[erohmensing]

PS just so you know, with the new cli, since all of your stuff is in the default locations, instead of

rasa interactive -d domain.yml -m models -c config.yml --data data --verbose --endpoints endpoints.yml

simply

rasa interactive --verbose

should do 🙂