GeoPandas error: AttributeError: You can only set the value of existing options

Question

When I try to set pyogrio globally like this:

gpd.options.io_engine = "pyogrio"

I get the error:

AttributeError: You can only set the value of existing options

This however works:

test = gpd.read_file(r"path\to\file.gpkg", engine='pyogrio')

What causes this problem, and how can I set this option globally?

I'm using a conda env with python= 3.10.14 and geopandas=0.12.2 within a jupyter notebook.

Answer 1

The global option was only introduced in geopandas 0.14... so you should update geopandas to be able to use it.

Reference: geopandas PR3008