Compose: docker-compose up fails with "TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'Timeout'"

[rikvanderkemp]

docker-compose version 1.15.0
Docker version 17.06.0-ce, build 3dfb8343

I am trying to do a docker-compose up with a file I have used many times before. But I now get the following traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 124, in _validate_timeout
    float(value)
TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'Timeout'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.15.0', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 68, in main
    command()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 118, in perform_command
    handler(command, command_options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 928, in up
    scale_override=parse_scale_args(options['--scale']),
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/compose/project.py", line 414, in up
    warn_for_swarm_mode(self.client)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/compose/project.py", line 640, in warn_for_swarm_mode
    info = client.info()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/docker/api/daemon.py", line 90, in info
    return self._result(self._get(self._url("/info")), True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 46, in inner
    return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 189, in _get
    return self.get(url, **self._set_request_timeout(kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 521, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 508, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 618, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 440, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 582, in urlopen
    timeout_obj = self._get_timeout(timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 309, in _get_timeout
    return Timeout.from_float(timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 154, in from_float
    return Timeout(read=timeout, connect=timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 97, in __init__
    self._connect = self._validate_timeout(connect, 'connect')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 127, in _validate_timeout
    "int or float." % (name, value))
ValueError: Timeout value connect was Timeout(connect=300, read=300, total=None), but it must be an int or float.

I can run docker ps etc and the docker service seems to be running...

[rikvanderkemp]

This can be closed as it seems to be having to do with the repository version of docker-compose in Arch. I installed docker-compose via pip and it works now!

[damien-biasotto]

Thanks a lot @rikvanderkemp! You just saved my day :)

[rod-stuchi]

I ran into the same problem.
I tried removing AUR docker-compose package and install via pip, nothing works.

but this package, work nicely

docker-compose-bin

Pythonless package of a a tool for defining and running multi-container applications

[olymk2]

Just hit this myself, the issue seems to be with requests downgrading fixes the issue for me.

pip3 install requests==2.10.0

[ghost]

@olymk2 for me it was 2.14.2

[Marek00Malik]

I have this problem with docker compose 1.22 now.
These are my lib versions:
docker (3.5.0)
docker-compose (1.22.0)
docker-pycreds (0.3.0)
dockerpty (0.4.1)
requests (2.18.4)

I'm getting the following error when running docker-compose up

File "/home/mmalik/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 302, in _get_timeout
return Timeout.from_float(timeout)
File "/home/mmalik/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 154, in from_float
return Timeout(read=timeout, connect=timeout)
File "/home/mmalik/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 97, in __init__
self._connect = self._validate_timeout(connect, 'connect')
File "/home/mmalik/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 127, in _validate_timeout
"int or float." % (name, value))