Cqlsh TypeError ('ref () does not accept keyword arguments',)

Question

When trying cqlsh, the following error occurs:

Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'localhost': TypeError('ref() does not take keyword arguments',)})

Answer 1

This happens when you have Cassandra 3.7 and Python 2.7.12

For CASSANDRA-11850, set the following environment variable:

CQLSH_NO_BUNDLED=TRUE