Miniconda env with environment.yml fails

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1

Hello. I am trying to create an environment from a environment.yml file.
See below for an error I have been unable to find documentation for.


# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/milongo/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1132, in __call__
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/Users/milongo/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda_env/cli/main.py", line 78, in do_call
        exit_code = getattr(module, func_name)(args, parser)
      File "/Users/milongo/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda/notices/core.py", line 121, in wrapper
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/Users/milongo/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda_env/cli/main_create.py", line 110, in execute
        prefix = determine_target_prefix(context, args)
      File "/Users/milongo/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda/base/context.py", line 1820, in determine_target_prefix
        if prefix_name is not None and not prefix_name.strip():  # pragma: no cover
    AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'strip'

`$ /Users/milongo/miniconda3/bin/conda-env create -f environment.yml`

  environment variables:
                 CIO_TEST=<not set>
  CONDA_AUTO_UPDATE_CONDA=false
        CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV=base
                CONDA_EXE=/Users/milongo/miniconda3/bin/conda
             CONDA_PREFIX=/Users/milongo/miniconda3
    CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER=(base)
         CONDA_PYTHON_EXE=/Users/milongo/miniconda3/bin/python
               CONDA_ROOT=/Users/milongo/miniconda3
              CONDA_SHLVL=1
           CURL_CA_BUNDLE=<not set>
                 INFOPATH=/opt/homebrew/share/info:/opt/homebrew/share/info:
               LD_PRELOAD=<not set>
                  MANPATH=/opt/homebrew/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/opt/homeb
                          rew/share/man::
                     PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/
                          App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/User
                          s/milongo/miniconda3/bin:/Users/milongo/miniconda3/condabin:/opt/homeb
                          rew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/Users/milongo/.cargo/bin
       REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=<not set>
            SSL_CERT_FILE=<not set>

     active environment : base
    active env location : /Users/milongo/miniconda3
            shell level : 1
       user config file : /Users/milongo/.condarc
 populated config files : 
          conda version : 23.3.1
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.10.10.final.0
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=arm64
                          __osx=13.0.1=0
                          __unix=0=0
       base environment : /Users/milongo/miniconda3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : /Users/milongo/miniconda3/etc/conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/osx-arm64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/osx-arm64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
          package cache : /Users/milongo/miniconda3/pkgs
                          /Users/milongo/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /Users/milongo/miniconda3/envs
                          /Users/milongo/.conda/envs
               platform : osx-arm64
             user-agent : conda/23.3.1 requests/2.28.1 CPython/3.10.10 Darwin/22.1.0 OSX/13.0.1
                UID:GID : 501:20
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False


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Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
2

I just realized the issue but I find it a bit strange since I had used this before.
This is how my environment.yml file looks like:

name: { iac-ansible }
channels:
  - defaults
dependencies:
  - python=3.10
  - pip=22.3
  - flake8=6.0
  - isort=5.9
  - autopep8=1.6
  - ipython=8.10
  - ipykernel=6.19
  - pytest=7.1
  - pytest-mock=3.10
  - pip:
    - molecule
    - ansible
    - boto3
    - awscli

I guess it takes the `{ }` as being a dict.
3

This post can be deleted! Not sure how to do it myself.