TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly.
If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc >= 3.19.0.
If you cannot immediately regenerate your protos, some other possible workarounds are:
Downgrade the protobuf package to 3.20.x or lower.
Set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python (but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower).
I had success pip installing protobuf==3.15.8. It’s not consistent with the error message but would have been the latest protobuf when our sagemaker==2.35.0 was released.
Installing 3.20.1 works or even anything lower than this. What worked for me is just installing this particular version of the library at the start of the notebook i.e. even before installing other libraries.