TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object when building TransfromerEngine

[windprak]

File "conda/envs/nemo/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/version.py", line 196, in init match = self._regex.search(version) TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

Following line: TransformerEngine/setup.py Line 613 version=te_version() had to be changed to: version=str(te_version())

That did cost me a lot of time actually, because it was throwing a CUDA runtime not found before that.

[ptrendx]

Hmmm, to be honest I don't quite see how this function could return something other than string. Could you check what was the original type (and value) of te_version()?