__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'cachedir'

[avafor]

Hi,
I have been working with my virtual environment in which I use BERTopic for a while. After I reinstalled my envoronment now I am not able to import BERtopic anymore. Below is the error:

import bertopic
`TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/tmp/ipykernel_27049/879401823.py in
20 from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
21 from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
---> 22 from hdbscan import HDBSCAN
23 from umap import UMAP
24 from sklearn.cluster import KMeans

~/anaconda3/envs/bertopic/lib/python3.7/site-packages/hdbscan/init.py in
----> 1 from .hdbscan_ import HDBSCAN, hdbscan
2 from .robust_single_linkage_ import RobustSingleLinkage, robust_single_linkage
3 from .validity import validity_index
4 from .prediction import (approximate_predict,
5 membership_vector,

~/anaconda3/envs/bertopic/lib/python3.7/site-packages/hdbscan/hdbscan_.py in
507 leaf_size=40,
508 algorithm="best",
--> 509 memory=Memory(cachedir=None, verbose=0),
510 approx_min_span_tree=True,
511 gen_min_span_tree=False,

TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'cachedir'
`

The Bertopic version I am using is 0.11.0

Thank you for your support.

[MaartenGr]

Ah, based on your error message, the recent commit in the HDBSCAN repo, and that joblib was recently updated, it seems that the problem should be resolved by either installing HDBSCAN from its main branch or by installing a previous version of joblib:

pip install --upgrade joblib==1.1.0

Hopefully, this should fix your issue!

[awdejong]

I had the same problem and this solved it! Thanks!

[senghongg]

I had the same problem and this solved it too. Thanks so much Maarten