Protobuf Warning

Hi Brendan,

A little bit of background first: starting with v5 of the SDK, datapoints fetching was changed from JSON to protobuf (initially with version >=4 ) as this is by far the heaviest and most used operation.

For compatibility with important packages like TensorFlow and Streamlit (to name a few) which unfortunately still depend on an old version of protobuf (^3.x i.e. <4), we (or rather I) went to great lengths to support both major versions >=3. One of the issues with v3 is that it lacks the compiled C binaries for certain platforms like M1 macs which I’m guessing you are on.

To solve this, verify that your project does not have a strict requirement on v3 of protobuf and simply upgrade the version to v4 or higher.

poetry add "protobuf>=4"
# or
pip install "protobuf>=4"

In case you must stay on v3, feel free to silence the warning by doing: (it is still plenty fast for small-to-medium sized jobs, i.e. less than a few tens of millions of datapoints)

import warnings

warnings.filterwarnings(
    "ignore",
    message="Your installation of 'protobuf' is missing compiled C binaries",
    category=UserWarning,
)

Yes, I installed a protobuf version >4 and am no longer receiving the errors. I’m not sure why I ended up with <4 to begin with as I’m not on an M1 mac like Hakon suggested.