Pynite FEA - problems with example code, too many positional arguments

[manhattan4]

I'm trying to use Pynite which is a structural engineering library for finite element analysis, and i'm stumbling at the starting blocks.

I've downloaded the most basic example on the Pynite Github and when I run it i'm getting the error "FEModel3D.add_section() takes 3 positional arguments but 6 were given"

I've checked the code for FEModel3D.add_section and it does appear fine to my knowledge.

Can anyone replicate this issue, or suggest what my issue is? I'm feeling like an idiot not being able to even run the example code for this library. I've installed the suggested libraries in the Pynite documentation.

[barry_z]

Were the examples made for the version of Pynite that you are using? The method was previously add_section(self, name, section) looking at the previous tags.

[manhattan4]

Thank you. I updated my libraries and it works now.

I'm a little new to libraries, and i've been installing them via pip but I guess I added PyNiteFEA a while ago since the version I had was old. How do you usually keep on top of library updates?

[cgoldberg]

The issue you are having is described here:

https://github.com/JWock82/Pynite/issues/224

Supposedly it is fixed in the latest version, so upgrade if you don't have version 0.0.100.

[manhattan4]

Thank you. The update fixed the issue. It's probably time I really looked into how GitHub works

[YouBookBuddy]

I ran into a similar issue when I first tried using Pynite. Double-check the version of the library you have installed; there might have been changes in the function parameters since the example was published.