conda_create "module 'colorama' has no attribute 'init'"

[charlielogan]

I am trying to load a conda environment in reticulate from a .yml file but am stopped by AttributeError: module 'colorama' has no attribute 'init'. In trying to figure out more about why this is occurring, I found that the same error happens when trying to create any conda environment with conda_create.

I uninstalled reticulate and tried these steps to reproduce from the beginning:
devtools::install_github("rstudio/reticulate")
library(reticulate)
conda_create("test_export", packages="python=3.7")

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\Scripts\conda-script.py", line 12, in <module> sys.exit(main())
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 151, in main from ..exceptions import conda_exception_handler
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 25, in <module> from .common.io import dashlist, timeout
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\lib\site-packages\conda\common\io.py", line 33, in <module> from .._vendor.tqdm import tqdm
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\lib\site-packages\conda\_vendor\tqdm\__init__.py", line 13, in <module> from .cli import main # TODO: remove in v5.0.0
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\lib\site-packages\conda\_vendor\tqdm\cli.py", line 9, in <module> from .std import TqdmKeyError, TqdmTypeError, tqdm
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\lib\site-packages\conda\_vendor\tqdm\std.py", line 22, in <module> from .utils import (
File "C:\Users\clogan\AppData\Local\R-MINI~1\lib\site-packages\conda\_vendor\tqdm\utils.py", line 45, in <module> colorama.init(strip=False)
AttributeError: module 'colorama' has no attribute 'init'
Error: Error creating conda environment 'test_export' [exit code 1]

Any help would be appreciated

[kevinushey]

jupyterlab/jupyterlab#3671 seems related, but I don't have any great ideas. The issue appears to be independent of reticulate, though.

[charlielogan]

jupyterlab/jupyterlab#3671 seems related, but I don't have any great ideas. The issue appears to be independent of reticulate, though.

Do you think its an issue with conda? Or with colorama?

[RParkerE]

I was having an issue with colorama.init() as well in a different external library. Issue 370 solved this for me. You will have to import colorama using from colorama import initialise at least with colorama 0.4.6 that worked for me.

[t-kalinowski]

Thanks for reporting. This doesn't seem to be a reticulate issue.