Actions for running tests are erroring out

[davidwagner]

The Github action to build and run tests is failing. I'm not sure why.

The first failure I see is

_________________________ tests/Charts.ipynb::Cell 17 __________________________
Notebook cell execution failed
Cell 17: Cell execution caused an exception
Input:
t.select(['weight', 'displ', 'hp']).scatter('weight', fit_line=True)
Traceback:
[...]
ValueError: data type <class 'numpy.object_'> not inexact

I noticed that the config file specifies Python 3.10, but we seem to be currently getting Python 3.6. From the logs of the output (under 'Set up conda environment'):

Run conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
  with:
    activate-environment: datascience
    environment-file: linux_environment.yml
    python-version: 3.6

Perhaps this is related?

[davidwagner]

Oh, I see the problem. Some of the older pull requests were created before .github/workflows/run_test.yml was updated to use python-version: '3.10', so their tests are still running with the old version of that file and thus with Python 3.6 and thus are failing.

[davidwagner]

The workaround for old pull tests is to fetch the branch locally via the command line and run the tests locally. This seems to work OK.

[adnanhemani]

Yup, makes sense. I'll close this ticket since we now have a workaround :)