# Cryptic traceback while using interactive plot

**URL:** <https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/cryptic-traceback-while-using-interactive-plot/5496>\
**Category:** hvPlot\
**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/cryptic-traceback-while-using-interactive-plot/5496 "2023-06-07T00:10:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![yt87](https://discourse.holoviz.org/user_avatar/discourse.holoviz.org/yt87/32/5021_2.png) [@yt87](https://discourse.holoviz.org/u/yt87)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/cryptic-traceback-while-using-interactive-plot/5496/1 "2023-06-07T00:10:18Z")

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Using the most recent version:

```auto
hvplot. __version__'0.8.3'

```

A variant of code from the user guide:

```auto
ds = xr.tutorial.open_dataset('air_temperature').load()

ds.sel(time='2013-01-02').hvplot.quadmesh(
# ds.interactive().sel(time=pnw.DiscreteSlider).hvplot.quadmesh(
    'lon', 'lat', 'air', projection=ccrs.Orthographic(-90, 30),
    global_extent=True, frame_height=540, cmap='viridis',
    coastline=True
)

```

This works as expected. However when I uncomment the line starting with `ds.interactive()`, the code fails with the following stack trace:

```auto
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[5], line 4
      1 ds = xr.tutorial.open_dataset('air_temperature').load()
      3 # ds.sel(time='2013-01-02').hvplot.quadmesh(
----> 4 ds.interactive().sel(time=pnw.DiscreteSlider).hvplot.quadmesh(
      5 'lon', 'lat', 'air', projection=ccrs.Orthographic(-90, 30),
      6 global_extent=True, frame_height=540, cmap='viridis',
      7 coastline=True
      8 )

File /mnt/sdb1/home/george/miniforge3/envs/icec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hvplot/interactive.py:820, in _hvplot. __call__ (self, _kind, *args, **kwargs)
    818 transform = type(transform)(transform, 'hvplot', accessor=True)
    819 dmap = 'kind' not in kwargs or isinstance(kwargs['kind'], str)
--> 820 return new._clone(transform(*args, **kwargs), dmap=dmap)

File /mnt/sdb1/home/george/miniforge3/envs/icec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hvplot/interactive.py:388, in Interactive._clone(self, transform, plot, loc, center, dmap, copy, max_rows, **kwargs)
    386 else:
    387 kwargs = dict(self._inherit_kwargs, **dict(self._kwargs,**kwargs))
--> 388 return type(self)(self._obj, fn=self._fn, transform=transform, plot=plot, depth=depth,
    389 loc=loc, center=center, dmap=dmap, _shared_obj=self._shared_obj,
    390 max_rows=max_rows, **kwargs)

File /mnt/sdb1/home/george/miniforge3/envs/icec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/hvplot/interactive.py:282, in Interactive. __init__ (self, obj, transform, fn, plot, depth, loc, center, dmap, inherit_kwargs, max_rows, method, _shared_obj, _current, **kwargs)
    280 self._current_ = _current
    281 else:
--> 282 self._current_ = self._transform.apply(ds, keep_index=True, compute=False)
    283 self._init = True
    284 self._dirty = False

File /mnt/sdb1/home/george/miniforge3/envs/icec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/holoviews/util/transform.py:774, in dim.apply(self, dataset, flat, expanded, ranges, all_values, keep_index, compute, strict)
    772 drange = ranges.get(eldim, {})
    773 drange = drange.get('combined', drange)
--> 774 data = self._apply_fn(dataset, data, fn, fn_name, args,
    775 kwargs, accessor, drange)
    776 drop_index = keep_index_for_compute and not keep_index
    777 compute = not compute_for_compute and compute

File /mnt/sdb1/home/george/miniforge3/envs/icec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/holoviews/util/transform.py:672, in dim._apply_fn(self, dataset, data, fn, fn_name, args, kwargs, accessor, drange)
    670 data = method(*args, **kwargs)
    671 else:
--> 672 raise e
    673 else:
    674 data = fn(*args, **kwargs)

File /mnt/sdb1/home/george/miniforge3/envs/icec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/holoviews/util/transform.py:666, in dim._apply_fn(self, dataset, data, fn, fn_name, args, kwargs, accessor, drange)
    664 else:
    665 try:
--> 666 data = method(*args, **kwargs)
    667 except Exception as e:
    668 if 'axis' in kwargs:

TypeError: hvPlotBase. __call__ () got multiple values for argument 'kind'

```

I did a quick check, indeed there are two `kind` values: the variable `air` as positional argument and the method used by hvplot: `quadmesh`, passed as a keyword.