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Elasticsearch Python API results in "search() missing 1 required positional argument" on a simple query

I am desperately trying to perform a simple search operation on elasticsearch, but fail since hours. This is my code:
res = es.search(index="people", doc_type="test", body={"query":{"match":{"name": "john"}}})
I saw this many times on the internet, but I get always an error and have no clue what is wrong with my code snippet.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./es_request.py", line 14, in <module>
res = es.search(index="people", doc_type="test", body={"query":{"match":{"name": "john"}}})
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pyelasticsearch/client.py", line 93, in decorate
return func(*args, query_params=query_params, **kwargs)
TypeError: search() missing 1 required positional argument: 'query'
Where do I have to write the required 'query'? I am trying to perform the search for name and last name.

The search method from pyelasticsearch library (which you are using) calls the query argument query, not body:
query = {"query": {"match": {"name": "john"}}}
es.search(index="people", doc_type="test", query=query)
es.search(query, index="people", doc_type="test") # you can also do this
I think you meant to use the official elasticsearch library, with which your code works perfectly fine (to add more confusion, its documentation is located at elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io).
Both libraries export the same module name, so things can sometimes sort of work when you use the wrong one. This is not a coincidence, see this article on their history and differences. Installing the official client is easy as:
pip uninstall pyelasticsearch
pip install elasticsearch

Code for gensim Word2vec as an HTTP service 'KeyedVectors' Attribute error

I am using the w2v_server_googlenews code from the word2vec HTTP server running at https://rare-technologies.com/word2vec-tutorial/#bonus_app. I changed the loaded file to a file of vectors trained with the original C version of word2vec. I load the file with
gensim.models.KeyedVectors.load_word2vec_format(fname, binary=True)
and it seems to load without problems. But when I test the HTTP service with, let's say
curl 'http://127.0.0.1/most_similar?positive%5B%5D=woman&positive%5B%5D=king&negative%5B%5D=man'
I got an empty result with only the execution time.
{"taken": 0.0003361701965332031, "similars": [], "success": 1}
I put a traceback.print_exc() on the except part of the related method, which is in this case def most_similar(self, *args, **kwargs): and I got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./w2v_server.py", line 114, in most_similar
topn=5)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gensim/models/keyedvectors.py", line 304, in most_similar
self.init_sims()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gensim/models/keyedvectors.py", line 817, in init_sims
self.syn0norm = (self.syn0 / sqrt((self.syn0 ** 2).sum(-1))[..., newaxis]).astype(REAL)
AttributeError: 'KeyedVectors' object has no attribute 'syn0'
Any idea on why this might happens?
Note: I use python 2.7 and I installed gensim using pip, which gave me gensim 2.1.0.

FYI that demo code was baed on gensim 0.12.3 (from 2015, as listed in its requirements.txt), and would need updating to work with the latest gensim.
It might be sufficient to add a line to w2v_server.py at line 70 (just after the load_word2vec_format()), to force the creation of the needed syn0norm property (which in older gensims was auto-created on load), before deleting the raw syn0 values. Specifically:
self.model.init_sims(replace=True)
(You would leave out the replace=True if you were going to be doing operations other than most_similar(), that might require raw vectors.)
If this works to fix the problem for you, a pull-request to the w2v_server_googlenews repo would be favorably received!

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'updateItem'

I am working on map automation using arcpy.
I need to add a legend on the map layout based on the layers added to the mxd.I am using the code below (as given on the tutorial):
import arcpy
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\Project.mxd")
df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0]
lyrFile = arcpy.mapping.Layer(r"C:\Project\Data\Rivers.lyr")
arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, lyrFile, "TOP")
styleItem = arcpy.mapping.ListStyleItems("USER_STYLE", "Legend Items", "NewDefaultLegendStyle")[0]
legend = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd, "LEGEND_ELEMENT")[0]
legend.updateItem(lyrFile, styleItem)
But everytime I run this code i get the following error:
Runtime error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'updateItem'
What could cause this error to appear?

What could cause this error to appear?
Well, I am not familiar with arcpy, but it seems the 0th element of whatever ListLayoutElements() returns is a list which indeed has no updateItem() method.
You might want to .append() to the list, or you might want to have a different type of object.

Your code is the same as ArcGIS Help example,
http://resources.arcgis.com/zh-cn/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00s30000006z000000
I tested the example code and it ran correctly.
By the way, I am wondering if you had pasted your own code. Otherwise you probably encounter problem in line 2,4,6 rather than the last line.
As the user2357112 suggested, you'd better try it again with clean code. Or you can confirm the type of the variable "legend" just by print type(legend)before the line
legend.updateItem(lyrFile, styleItem)

Python 'if x is None' not catching NoneType

The below snippet of code keeps returning a "NoneType isn't iterable" error. Why doesn't the if statement catch this?
inset = set()
for x in node.contacted:
print type(x)
if x.is_converted() is True:
nset.add(x)
if x.contacted is None:
memotable[node.gen][node.genind] = nset
else:
nset.union(self.legacy(x, memotable))
memotable[node.gen][node.genind] = nset
Full traceback as requested:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\Dropbox\CS\a4\skeleton\trialtest.py", line 142, in
test_legacy_and_frac()
File "F:\Dropbox\CS\a4\skeleton\trialtest.py", line 125, in
test_legacy_and_frac
cunittest2.assert_equals(set([n10,n12,n21]), t.legacy(n00,mtable))
File "F:\Dropbox\CS\a4\skeleton\trial.py", line 138, in legacy
nset.union(self.legacy(x, memotable))
File "F:\Dropbox\CS\a4\skeleton\trial.py", line 138, in legacy
nset.union(self.legacy(x, memotable))
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

The if statement guarantees that x.contacted isn't None.
But x.contacted isn't what you're trying to iterate or index, so it isn't guarding anything.
There's no reason memotable or memotable[node.gen] can't be None even though x.contacted is something else. For that matter, we have no idea of what the code inside self.legacy(x, memotable) does—maybe it tries to iterate x, or other_table[x], or who knows what, any of which could be None.
This is why you need to look at the entire traceback, not just the error string. It will tell you exactly which statement failed, and why.
And now that you've pasted the traceback:
File "F:\Dropbox\CS\a4\skeleton\trial.py", line 138, in legacy nset.union(self.legacy(x, memotable))
Yep, it's something that happens inside that self.legacy line, and it has absolutely nothing to do with x.contacted. The problem is almost certainly that your self.legacy method is returning None, so you're doing nset.union(None).
Again, whether x.contacted is or is not None is completely irrelevant here, so your check doesn't guard you here.
If you want us to debug the problem in that function, you will have to give us the code to that function, instead of code that has nothing to do with the error. Maybe it's something silly, like doing a + b instead of return a + b at the end, or maybe it's some deep logic error, but there's really no way we can guess.

Check the value of memotable and memotable[node.gen] as it can not be said to guaranteed that they are not None if x.contacted is not None (without the code).
If you mention the values of the variables here and Post the Full Traceback, we may be able to point out the problem more precisely.

The exception occurs because the function call self.legacy(x, memotable) returns None.
The traceback indicates the error occurs in nset.union(self.legacy(x, memotable)), and set.union() raises that exception when its argument is None. (I'm assuming nset is a set. Your code defines inset = set(), but does not show where nset comes from)
>>> set().union(None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

How to recover a broken python "cPickle" dump?

I am using rss2email for converting a number of RSS feeds into mail for easier consumption. That is, I was using it because it broke in a horrible way today: On every run, it only gives me this backtrace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 740, in <module>
elif action == "list": list()
File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 681, in list
feeds, feedfileObject = load(lock=0)
File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 422, in load
feeds = pickle.load(feedfileObject)
TypeError: ("'str' object is not callable", 'sxOYAAuyzSx0WqN3BVPjE+6pgPU', ((2009, 3, 19, 1, 19, 31, 3, 78, 0), {}))
The only helpful fact that I have been able to construct from this backtrace is that the file ~/.rss2email/feeds.dat in which rss2email keeps all its configuration and runtime state is somehow broken. Apparently, rss2email reads its state and dumps it back using cPickle on every run.
I have even found the line containing that 'sxOYAAuyzSx0WqN3BVPjE+6pgPU'string mentioned above in the giant (>12MB) feeds.dat file. To my untrained eye, the dump does not appear to be truncated or otherwise damaged.
What approaches could I try in order to reconstruct the file?
The Python version is 2.5.4 on a Debian/unstable system.
EDIT
Peter Gibson and J.F. Sebastian have suggested directly loading from the
pickle file and I had tried that before. Apparently, a Feed class
that is defined in rss2email.py is needed, so here's my script:
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
# import pickle
import cPickle as pickle
sys.path.insert(0,"/usr/share/rss2email")
from rss2email import Feed
feedfile = open("feeds.dat", 'rb')
feeds = pickle.load(feedfile)
The "plain" pickle variant produces the following traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./r2e-rescue.py", line 8, in <module>
feeds = pickle.load(feedfile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 1370, in load
return Unpickler(file).load()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 858, in load
dispatch[key](self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 1133, in load_reduce
value = func(*args)
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
The cPickle variant produces essentially the same thing as calling
r2e itself:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./r2e-rescue.py", line 10, in <module>
feeds = pickle.load(feedfile)
TypeError: ("'str' object is not callable", 'sxOYAAuyzSx0WqN3BVPjE+6pgPU', ((2009, 3, 19, 1, 19, 31, 3, 78, 0), {}))
EDIT 2
Following J.F. Sebastian's suggestion around putting "printf
debugging" into Feed.__setstate__ into my test script, these are the
last few lines before Python bails out.
u'http:/com/news.ars/post/20080924-everyone-declares-victory-in-smutfree-wireless-broadband-test.html': u'http:/com/news.ars/post/20080924-everyone-declares-victory-in-smutfree-wireless-broadband-test.html'},
'to': None,
'url': 'http://arstechnica.com/'}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./r2e-rescue.py", line 23, in ?
feeds = pickle.load(feedfile)
TypeError: ("'str' object is not callable", 'sxOYAAuyzSx0WqN3BVPjE+6pgPU', ((2009, 3, 19, 1, 19, 31, 3, 78, 0), {}))
The same thing happens on a Debian/etch box using python 2.4.4-2.

How I solved my problem
A Perl port of pickle.py
Following J.F. Sebastian's comment about how simple the pickle
format is, I went out to port parts of pickle.py to Perl. A couple
of quick regular expressions would have been a faster way to access my
data, but I felt that the hack value and an opportunity to learn more
about Python would be be worth it. Plus, I still feel much more
comfortable using (and debugging code in) Perl than Python.
Most of the porting effort (simple types, tuples, lists, dictionaries)
went very straightforward. Perl's and Python's different notions of
classes and objects has been the only issue so far where a bit more
than simple translation of idioms was needed. The result is a module
called Pickle::Parse which after a bit of polishing will be
published on CPAN.
A module called Python::Serialise::Pickle existed on CPAN, but I
found its parsing capabilities lacking: It spews debugging output all
over the place and doesn't seem to support classes/objects.
Parsing, transforming data, detecting actual errors in the stream
Based upon Pickle::Parse, I tried to parse the feeds.dat file.
After a few iteration of fixing trivial bugs in my parsing code, I got
an error message that was strikingly similar to pickle.py's original
object not callable error message:
Can't use string ("sxOYAAuyzSx0WqN3BVPjE+6pgPU") as a subroutine
ref while "strict refs" in use at lib/Pickle/Parse.pm line 489,
<STDIN> line 187102.
Ha! Now we're at a point where it's quite likely that the actual data
stream is broken. Plus, we get an idea where it is broken.
It turned out that the first line of the following sequence was wrong:
g7724
((I2009
I3
I19
I1
I19
I31
I3
I78
I0
t(dtRp62457
Position 7724 in the "memo" pointed to that string
"sxOYAAuyzSx0WqN3BVPjE+6pgPU". From similar records earlier in the
stream, it was clear that a time.struct_time object was needed
instead. All later records shared this wrong pointer. With a simple
search/replace operation, it was trivial to fix this.
I find it ironic that I found the source of the error by accident
through Perl's feature that tells the user its position in the input
data stream when it dies.
Conclusion
I will move away from rss2email as soon as I find time to
automatically transform its pickled configuration/state mess to
another tool's format.
pickle.py needs more meaningful error messages that tell the user
about the position of the data stream (not the poision in its own
code) where things go wrong.
Porting parts pickle.py to Perl was fun and, in the end, rewarding.

Have you tried manually loading the feeds.dat file using both cPickle and pickle? If the output differs it might hint at the error.
Something like (from your home directory):
import cPickle, pickle
f = open('.rss2email/feeds.dat', 'r')
obj1 = cPickle.load(f)
obj2 = pickle.load(f)
(you might need to open in binary mode 'rb' if rss2email doesn't pickle in ascii).
Pete
Edit: The fact that cPickle and pickle give the same error suggests that the feeds.dat file is the problem. Probably a change in the Feed class between versions of rss2email as suggested in the Ubuntu bug J.F. Sebastian links to.

Sounds like the internals of cPickle are getting tangled up. This thread (http://bytes.com/groups/python/565085-cpickle-problems) looks like it might have a clue..

'sxOYAAuyzSx0WqN3BVPjE+6pgPU' is most probably unrelated to the pickle's problem
Post an error traceback for (to determine what class defines the attribute that can't be called (the one that leads to the TypeError):
python -c "import pickle; pickle.load(open('feeds.dat'))"
EDIT:
Add the following to your code and run (redirect stderr to file then use 'tail -2' on it to print last 2 lines):
from pprint import pprint
def setstate(self, dict_):
pprint(dict_, stream=sys.stderr, depth=None)
self.__dict__.update(dict_)
Feed.__setstate__ = setstate
If the above doesn't yield an interesting output then use general troubleshooting tactics:
Confirm that 'feeds.dat' is the problem:
backup ~/.rss2email directory
install rss2email into virtualenv/pip sandbox (or use zc.buildout) to isolate the environment (make sure you are using feedparser.py from the trunk).
add couple of feeds, add feeds until 'feeds.dat' size is greater than the current. Run some tests.
try old 'feeds.dat'
try new 'feeds.dat' on existing rss2email installation
See r2e bails out with TypeError bug on Ubuntu.