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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: TypeError
Message: Couldn't cast array of type string to null
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1831, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 644, in write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2272, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2223, in cast_table_to_schema
arrays = [
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2224, in <listcomp>
cast_array_to_feature(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1795, in wrapper
return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1795, in <listcomp>
return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2052, in cast_array_to_feature
casted_array_values = _c(array.values, feature.feature)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1797, in wrapper
return func(array, *args, **kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2086, in cast_array_to_feature
return array_cast(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1797, in wrapper
return func(array, *args, **kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1948, in array_cast
raise TypeError(f"Couldn't cast array of type {_short_str(array.type)} to {_short_str(pa_type)}")
TypeError: Couldn't cast array of type string to null
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1456, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1055, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 894, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 970, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1702, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1858, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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book_title string | author string | genres list | tags list | chapter_title string | text string |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | The Eurostar | You think of travelers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. Travel is not merely the business of being bone-idle, but also an elaborate bumming evasion, allowing us to call attention to ourselves with our conspicuous absence while we intrude upon other p... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 2 | Long after I took the trip I wrote about in The Great Railway Bazaar I went on thinking how I'd gone overland, changing trains across Asia, improvising my trip, rubbing against the world. And reflecting on what I'd seen—the way the unrevisited past is always looping in your dreams. Memory is a ghost train too. Ages lat... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 3 | What traveler backtracked to take the great trip again? None of the good ones that I know. Greene never returned to the Liberian bush, nor to Mexico, nor to Vietnam. In his late fifties, Waugh dismissed modern travel altogether as mere tourism and a waste of time. After 1948, Thesiger did not return to Rub' al Khali, t... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 4 | Nothing is more suitable to a significant departure than bad weather. It matched my mood, too, the rain that morning in London, the low brown sky leaking drizzle, darkening the porous city of old stone, and because of it—the rain descending like a burden—everyone was hunched, their wet heads cast down, eyes averted, th... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | The other Orient Express | A national crisis is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler; nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if the crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eyewitness. Purgatorial as a crisis sometimes is for a traveler, it is pre... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 6 | The sight of the old pockmarked city of puddles, smutty under the snowmelt, Keleti Station looming like a Hungarian madhouse in the rain, the slushy streets and muddy sidewalks, defrosting and dripping after the long winter—all of it made me hopeful. I wasn't looking for glamour or a version of home, but rather somethi... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 7 | The passengers who boarded the Euronight, the express to Bucharest, were Romanian—I was traveling against the prevailing current of people headed west. Who would take the train to Romania if they didn't have to? I was told that in recent years foreigners who wished to adopt Romanian orphans took this train from time to... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 8 | Remembering the conductor's wink, I went in search of the dining car, walking through the passageway of the dark tipping train making anvil clangs in the night.
And when I found it I thought: Just at the point in my life when I'd imagined that all travel was a homogenized and bland experience of plastic food and inter... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 9 | The rain was still falling as, with howling brakes, the train came to a dead stop at Baneasa Station in the center of Bucharest, where I was to change trains—the next one, for Istanbul, leaving later in the day. The rain spattered on the oily locomotive and the platform roof and the muddy tracks. But this was not life-... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 10 | "Mister Pawel" —it was Nikolai, hailing me on the platform. He introduced me to the people seeing him off, his university colleagues, threadbare scholars.
"What is your business?" one asked.
"I'm retired," I said.
"Many retired people come here!" he said, being hearty. What did that mean?
"Would you like to be goin... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | The ferry to Besiktas | Istanbul is a water world, and your first view of it, stepping out of Sirkeci Station, is the pin-cushion profile of minarets on domes seeming to rise from steep dark islands, turbulent ocean all around, the Sea of Marmara to the right, the Golden Horn to the left, the Bosporus straight ahead. Walk forward, walk anywhe... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 12 | I got more news of the dinner party: "Pamuk said he's coming." I was eager to meet him, not merely because of his well-made novels and his personal history in Istanbul, but because, as a passionate writer and self-described graphomaniac, he was probably eccentric, someone who lived at the edge of the world, the solitar... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 13 | The other writer I had wished to meet in Istanbul was Elif Shafak. We met at the Ciragan Palas, on another rainy day. She was so beautiful I forgot her books, writing seemed irrelevant, I was bewitched. I was reminded of the Kipling line "Much that is written about Oriental passion and impulsiveness is exaggerated and ... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Night train to Ankara | The century-old station at Haydarpasa was floodlit and looked like an opera house on the night I crossed the Bosporus to take the night express to Ankara. "A railway here in Asia—in the dreamy realm of the Orient ... is a strange thing to think of," Mark Twain wrote in The Innocents Abroad, when he was in Turkey. "And ... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 15 | "Muhammad was illiterate. He had twelve wives and, let us say, a vivid sexual history," another forthright Turkish professor was saying to me. I was in another part of Ankara, another campus, Bilkent University.
Muhammad the indefatigable womanizer: that is the way the Prophet is depicted by Neguib Mahfouz in his cele... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Night train to Tbilisi | The trouble in Trabzon, on the Black Sea, where I found filthy weather, ugly rumors, and ill tidings, was the incident that had slipped Professor Halman's mind: the murder a month before of an unbeliever in a fit of sentimental fury. This singular outrage—singular because such things seldom happened in Turkey—was the s... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 17 | In the course of idling there, I found that Georgians do not call their country Georgia. They give it its ancient name, Sakartvelo, after its legendary founder. "Georgia" is from the Persian Gorjestan, Land of the Wolf. Armenians call the place Vir, another ancient name, a variation of "Iberia." But by whatever name, i... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 18 | Now and then you meet someone at a party or at a friend's house and he says, "I'm from Tbilisi"—or wherever—"and if you ever visit, you must look me up."
And you say, "Absolutely," but the day never comes, for why on earth would you ever go to Tbilisi? And usually the person is merely being polite and doesn't mean it.... |
Ghost Train to Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | [
"travel",
"Asia",
"adventure",
"India",
"trains"
] | [] | Chapter 19 | A woman named marika, who had also been at the ballet, offered to show me around Tbilisi—the parts that had been renovated, the districts that were still dilapidated, the ancient villas, the Soviet bureaus, the synagogues and mosques. But I found Marika more interesting than any of this real estate.
She was in her mid... |
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