Error: “TypeError: 'NoneType' object does not support item assignment” when no data is passed into Text Pre-processing tool
Environment Details
Text Pre-processing tool fails with an error if no data is passed in. Here's the error as seen in TextPre-Processing.txt:
2021-08-20 09:00:27,203 ERROR 'NoneType' object does not support item assignment
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\envs\IntelligenceSuite_venv\Lib\site-packages\ayx_nlp_toolkit\interfaces\text_preprocessing_interface.py", line 207, in generate_output_df
processed_corpus = create_processed_corpus(
File "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\envs\IntelligenceSuite_venv\Lib\site-packages\ayx_nlp_toolkit\utilities\text_preprocessing_utility_functions.py", line 230, in create_processed_corpus
for doc in nlp.pipe(text_series):
File "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\envs\IntelligenceSuite_venv\Lib\site-packages\spacy\language.py", line 814, in pipe
docs = (self.make_doc(text) for text in texts)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\envs\IntelligenceSuite_venv\Lib\site-packages\ayx_plugin_sdk\providers\e1_provider\connection_callback_strategy.py", line 130, in connection_closed_callback
self.plugin_proxy.plugin_driver.on_complete()
File "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\envs\IntelligenceSuite_venv\Lib\site-packages\ayx_plugin_sdk\providers\e1_provider\e1_plugin_driver.py", line 63, in on_complete
self._user_plugin.on_complete()
File "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\envs\IntelligenceSuite_venv\Lib\site-packages\ayx_nlp_toolkit\tools\text_preprocessing.py", line 104, in on_complete
output_df = self.text_preprocessing_interface.generate_output_df(
File "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\envs\IntelligenceSuite_venv\Lib\site-packages\ayx_nlp_toolkit\interfaces\text_preprocessing_interface.py", line 216, in generate_output_df
output_df[self.output] = text_series
TypeError: 'NoneType' object does not support item assignment
- Alteryx Designer
- Versions: 2021.1, 2021.2, 2021.3
- Additional Tools
- Alteryx Intelligence Suite
Cause
DE34406/TDES-3821 has been logged to address this.
Resolution
Please ensure that there is at least a record being passed into the Text pre-processing tool.
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