AttributeError when opening a parquet file with geopandas

[lucadix]

Type: Bug

After updating VSCode to the latest version (1.97.2), I get an "Attribute Error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'copy'" when I do the following:

gdf = gpd.read_parquet("../link_to_file.parquet")
gdf.head() 

--> the latter generates the error!

I tried rolling back to the previously installed version (1.95) and the error does not show up any longer. Please let me know if you need any additional info from my side in order to fix the issue. Thanks! :)

VS Code version: Code 1.97.2 (e54c774, 2025-02-12T23:20:35.343Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 23.4.0
Modes:

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