Troubleshooting

If you’re having any trouble running your Pyquil programs locally or on the QPU, please check the following things before sending a support request. It will save you time and make it easier for us to help!

1. Ensure that your pyQuil version is up to date. If you’re using pip, you can do this with pip freeze. Within your script, you can use __version__:

   import pyquil
   print(pyquil.__version__)
   

   You can update pyQuil with pip using pip install pyquil --upgrade. You can find the latest version available at our releases page or on PyPi.

2. If the error appears to be authentication-related, or makes any mention of your user_auth_token, then please update your token following the directions at https://qcs.rigetti.com/auth/token.

3. Run your script with debug logging enabled. If you’re running a script, you can enable that using an environment variable:

   LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG pyquil my_script.py
   

   import logging
   from pyquil.api._logger import logger
   
   logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
   

If the problem still isn’t clear, then we can help! Please send your debug log to us, along with the contents of your ~/.qcs_config and ~/.forest_config files, at our support page. Thanks for using pyQuil!