AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_values'

Question

I am new in coding and need your help. I get the following error:

line 159, in _get_solution
    xs = np.array(ms.get_values(self.int_var)).reshape(self.path_n, self.orderbook_n)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_values'

after reaching this part of the code:

line 159, in _get_solution
    xs = np.array(ms.get_values(self.int_var)).reshape(self.path_n, self.orderbook_n)

When I use: print(dir(ms)) to check what could causing this it gives me the following:

['__bool__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__']

How could I proceed to get the code running?

The complete code for this part is:

def _get_solution(self):
    '''function to solve the optimization model, save result and print outputs'''
    self.print_content = ''
    self.trade_solution = OrderedDict()
    ms = self.solve()
    xs = np.array(ms.get_values(self.int_var)).reshape(self.path_n, self.orderbook_n)
    zs = xs * self.precision_matrix
    nonzeroZ = list(zip(*np.nonzero(zs)))
    nonzeroZ = sorted(nonzeroZ, key=lambda x: x[0])

Answer 1

The error is telling you that the variable ms has evaluated to None, which is why it has no get_values() method.

Assuming that line 159 from the error message is the corresponding line in _get_solution(), this means that in the line above

ms = self.solve()

the call to self.solve() returned None.

You need to inspect self.solve() to understand why it did that.

Since you are new to Python, keep in mind that, when a function or method has no return statement, or never reaches a valid return statement, it will return None by default.