M1 iMac - Gaia.load_data ValueError: 1:0: not well-formed (invalid token)

[JosephKarpinski]

Running into a strange error running Gaia notebooks on a M1 iMac Ventura 13.2.1 desktop under VSCode:

Version: 1.76.2
Commit: ee2b180d582a7f601fa6ecfdad8d9fd269ab1884
Date: 2023-03-14T17:53:46.528Z
Electron: 19.1.11
Chromium: 102.0.5005.196
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.26-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 22.3.0
Sandboxed: Yes

The same code runs fine under my older intel iMac.

Worked with the Gaia support team and determined that the Gaia Notebook works under native Jupyter Notebook but not VSCode.

To duplicate:
1.- Download the .zip file that contains complementary notebooks, supplementary files, and a "tutorials.yml" environment file in: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/datalink-products#datalink_jntb_get_all
2.- Using Conda: create a dedicated Python environment from the "tutorials.yml" file (follow the steps detailed here: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html#creating-an-environment-from-an-environment-yml-file )

Below are screen prints of the issue:

[lszomoru]

@DonJayamanne, could you please help triage this issue? Thank you!

[DonJayamanne]

@JosephKarpinski I'm very sorry for not getting back to you on this issue. Are you still running into this.
I'd like to help you get unblocked with this, please do let me know

Please do try installing the latest version as we have shipped a few binaries in the latest release that fixes a number of issues related to Mac M1s (binaries build for apple silicon chips, specially the zeromq.js binary used for communication with kernels.)

[JosephKarpinski]

Simple test.
This works under Jupyter Notebook but gets an error using VSCODE using same Python 3.8.5 Conda environment

[DonJayamanne]

@JosephKarpinski Thanks for getting back.
Please could you enable logging as follows:

• Open settings & go into Jupyter->Logging
• Change the value to verbose
• Reload VS Code,
• Attempt to repro the issue & then copy the output from the Jupyter output panel.

Its possible the conda environment is not getting activated and some env variables are not setup correctly, thereby causing the packages to not load correctly.

Please could you run the following code in both VS Code notebook and Jupyter Notebook cell and provide the outputs from both

import sys
print(sys.path)

[JosephKarpinski]

Same results.
See attached below.

Try running the two lines of Python code under VSCODE on Apple Intel and Apple M1.