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barnabywalker

Has anyone else had a problem today (2026-09-04) with imports from fastai?The error message points to a problem with the underlying fastcore package:AttributeError: 'Function' object attribute '__doc__' is read-onlyI'm getting the same error using fa...

barnabywalker

I actually managed to fix it by rolling back my databricks runtime and adding a pinned install of `plum-dispatch` (apparently some people in my team had previously had this issue and found a fix, but it's something that periodically happens).DBR 17.3...

barnabywalker

Thanks for pointing to that issue, but I'm really not sure it's related to this error?I pinned the fastai version to 2.8.5, which was the version that worked yesterday, and tried different runtimes. It didn't work for any of them, so not sure what th...

barnabywalker

Also, I couldn't find any other issues with the same problem with setting __doc__ on read-only built-in types in the fastcore issue tracker. If you found any, would you mind linking to them?

barnabywalker

Thank you for the reply Guy, I'm not actually sure whether the change is down to runtime version now - I've tried importing from fastai using various runtimes (18.2.9, 17.3.20, 19.6.3), using a node with or without GPU, and using an ML and a non-ML r...

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