Failed to execute script docker-compose

Question

I use mac 10.11.6 El capitan and i installed docker toolbox and i am trying to use docker compose build option but i am throwing some errors as follows,

kj$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 71, in main
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 124, in perform_command
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 41, in project_from_options
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 113, in get_project
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 380, in load
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 380, in <listcomp>
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 513, in process_config_file
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 221, in get_service_dicts
  File "distutils/version.py", line 46, in __eq__
  File "distutils/version.py", line 337, in _cmp
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'
[83046] Failed to execute script docker-compose

The content of yml file

version: '3.3'

services:

  users:
    build:
      context: ./
      dockerfile: Dockerfile-dev
    volumes:
      - './:/usr/src/app'
    ports:
      - 5001:5000
    environment:
      - FLASK_APP=project/__init__.py
      - FLASK_ENV=development

I am not sure what causes this problem, Please give your suggestions, Thanks

Answer 1

The answer to this question is pretty straight forward, it happened to me this morning. When I finished working on my project I closed the docker app for Mac (mainly what the error says is that it cannot get the API version of Docker and or docker-compose). Make sure your Docker for desktop is running everything else should be back to normal.Check this image to see if docker desktop is running.

Answer 2

I solved it by starting the docker service:

service docker start