ValueError: Got an unexpected argument: categories

[Scott H. Hawley]

Hi, I've referred to the Usage section in the README as well as #9 and #10. I've checked out rc1 because it's appropriate for the version of fma_metadata.zip and fma_small.zip that I checked out, and also I've set my environment variables.

Nevertheless, running the line

    tracks = utils.load('tracks.csv')

in either the usage.ipynb file or my own very simple Python script will produce a ValueError about categories:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "proc_fma.py", line 3, in <module>
    tracks = utils.load('fma_metadata/tracks.csv')
  File "/media/datadrive/datasets/fma/utils.py", line 213, in load
    'category', categories=SUBSETS, ordered=True)
  File "/home/shawley/anaconda3/envs/panotti/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/core/generic.py", line 5883, in astype
    dtype=dtype, copy=copy, errors=errors, **kwargs
  File "/home/shawley/anaconda3/envs/panotti/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py", line 581, in astype
    return self.apply("astype", dtype=dtype, **kwargs)
  File "/home/shawley/anaconda3/envs/panotti/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py", line 438, in apply
    applied = getattr(b, f)(**kwargs)
  File "/home/shawley/anaconda3/envs/panotti/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py", line 557, in astype
    return self._astype(dtype, copy=copy, errors=errors, values=values, **kwargs)
  File "/home/shawley/anaconda3/envs/panotti/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py", line 598, in _astype
    "Got an unexpected argument: {}".format(deprecated_arg)
ValueError: Got an unexpected argument: categories

I haven't seen this error reported in any of the other issues. Can anyone help, e.g. @mdeff ?
Thanks!

[Scott H. Hawley]

Fixed... Apparently there's been a change in Pandas, at least for version 0.25.0 (the requirements.txt file for fma doesn't specify a version for pandas).

So the fix is to modify utils.py so that it includes

from pandas.api.types import CategoricalDtype

and the offending line about categories that used to read as

                'category', categories=SUBSETS, ordered=True)

now reads as

                CategoricalDtype(categories=SUBSETS, ordered=True))

. :-)

[Andrés Marafioti]

This error also appears in the creation notebook

[Michaël Defferrard]

Thanks for reporting! This behavior was indeed removed in pandas 0.25:

Removed the previously deprecated ordered and categories keyword arguments in astype (GH17742)

I used pandas==0.21.0 when developing this code. I will add package versions to the requirements.txt.

[717101]

Hi, I tried to use the new code but the error persist in the next line.
Thanks for your work.

---

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-31-4224f39de5bf> in <module>()
      1 AUDIO_DIR = os.environ.get('fma_small')
----> 2 tracks = utils.load('fma_metadata/tracks.csv')

/content/utils.py in load(filepath)
    212             tracks[column] = tracks[column].astype('category')
    213 
--> 214         return tracks
    215 
    216 

TypeError: astype() got an unexpected keyword argument 'categories'

[Andrés Marafioti]

What does:

import pandas
print(pandas.__version__)

prints?

[717101]

Thanks, I didn't realized that my pandas version was downgraded.

[Michaël Defferrard]

I tried to use the new code but the error persist in the next line.

The line number of the error (--> 214 return tracks) seems to indicate you're not using the latest version. The latest has a try-catch block for this case:

212        try:
213            tracks['set', 'subset'] = tracks['set', 'subset'].astype(
214                    'category', categories=SUBSETS, ordered=True)
215        except ValueError:
216            # the categories and ordered arguments were removed in pandas 0.25
217            tracks['set', 'subset'] = tracks['set', 'subset'].astype(
218                     pd.CategoricalDtype(categories=SUBSETS, ordered=True))

So both old (pandas<0.25) and new (pandas>=0.25) pandas should work.

Could you try a fresh git clone?

[Albert]

Hello, I know I'm a little late, but I would like to add that I am still getting the error despite the try-catch block.

Edit: I fixed it by removing the except ValueError: and just changing it to except:

[Michaël Defferrard]

Thanks for reporting @albert239825. Which exception did you get? If TypeError, could you try #47? Which version of pandas (import pandas; print(pandas.__version__)) are you using?

[Albert]

@mdeff I didn't get a type error. My pandas version is 1.2.2 and the error I get is "astype() got an unexpected keyword argument 'categories'".
Edit: Also, I undid a commit with the fix and now it's broken again...
Edit: Nevermind, changing
except ValueError: to except: fixed the issue as before

[Michaël Defferrard]

the error I get is "astype() got an unexpected keyword argument 'categories'"

And that's a TypeError. 😉

Hence I'll merge #47.

[Albert]

@mdeff Thanks! So sorry for my lack of knowledge.

[Michaël Defferrard]

No problem. 😉 Thank you for following-up on the issue.