Attributeerror: type object 'ioloop' has no attribute 'initialized'.

Question

Problem :

I am very new to programming world. Currently I am trying to learn how to use the flexx to create the GUI website. This is my first program in flex. If I try to compile my code then it gives me below error:

“Attributeerror: type object 'ioloop' has no attribute 'initialized'.”

Please find below my program for your reference.

from flexx import flx

class HelloFlexx(flx.Widget):

def init(self):

        flx.Button(text='Hello')

        flx.Button(text='Flexx')

flexxapp = flx.App(HelloFlexx)

flexxapp.export('example.html',link=0) #export to singe file

flexxapp.launch('browser') #show it now in a broswer

flexx.run() # enter the mainloop

Why am I facing above error ? How can I fix above error?

Answer 1

I have gone through your code and I understand that you are a very beginner to programming so you are facing the initial issues.I know the reason behind this error is related to pyzmq and tornado's version. You must try below command to downgrade your tornado.

pip3 install tornado==5

After executing above command your tornado and pyzmq will surely work normally now. Also please refer the versions for other softwares too. Please use the Miniconda. The python version is 3.6.8, pyzmq version is 18.0.1 and the tornado is 5.0.0. After doing all above changes then your current error will be fixed.

Answer 2

Appears to be Tornado version 5. There's discussion here: Install Jupyter Notebook on Miniconda

pip uninstall tornado
pip install tornado==4.5.3

This issue has only occured to me as well. My older anaconda environments appear to be performing fine however the environments I have made today appear to have this exact problem which throws AttributeError: type object 'IOLoop' has no attribute 'initialized'.

It appears to be since of the advanced release of tornado==5.0 which released either today or yesterday. I returned back to the last stable version for example tornado==4.5.3 and it performed.

Miniconda is OK however Anaconda is recommend.

I required matplotlib in python, and need jupyter performing. The package will attempt to uninstall matplotlib in case you uninstall tornado, if not you do a force. However, I still require matplotlib, I require that. So I still require to force matplotlib to apply the old version of tornado. Turns out I had two tornado versions, one installed by pip, other installed by conda.

Finally, running these commands obtain jupyter and matplotlib performing again: (Ran it in the conda environment that was broken.)

conda remove tornado --force # keeps matplotlib
pip uninstall tornado
conda install tornado=4.5.3

I earlier had applied pip to install tensorflow library, which I also require, and maybe it brought along the junky tornado v5, not sure.

It was pointed out to me by another (SB) that the following might solve my problem:

C:\Python36>python -m pip install --upgrade pyzmq notebook