seldon-cli attr --action apply doesnt pick up the attributes json file

[shreyas87]

upon executing the following command in the command line : -
seldon-cli attr --action apply --client-name univision --json attr.json
the following error occurs -
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/conda/bin/seldon-cli", line 4, in
import('pkg_resources').run_script('seldon==2.1', 'seldon-cli')
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-23.0.0-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources/init.py", line 719, in run_script
connecting to zookeeper-1:2181,zookeeper-2:2181,zookeeper-3:2181 [SUCCEEDED]
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-23.0.0-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources/init.py", line 1504, in run_script
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seldon-2.1-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/seldon-cli", line 5, in
seldon.cli.start_seldoncli()
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seldon-2.1-py2.7.egg/seldon/cli/init.py", line 3, in start_seldoncli
cli_main.main()
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seldon-2.1-py2.7.egg/seldon/cli/cli_main.py", line 355, in main
cmds[cmd](opts,command_data, command_args)
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seldon-2.1-py2.7.egg/seldon/cli/cmd_attr.py", line 250, in cmd_attr
actions[action](command_data, opts)
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seldon-2.1-py2.7.egg/seldon/cli/cmd_attr.py", line 210, in action_apply
store_json(command_data,opts)
File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seldon-2.1-py2.7.egg/seldon/cli/cmd_attr.py", line 106, in store_json
f = open(opts.json)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'attr.json'

the attr.json is present in the working directory
Shreyass-MBP:univision_poc shreyassrinivasan$ pwd
/Users/shreyassrinivasan/seldon/univision_poc
Shreyass-MBP:univision_poc shreyassrinivasan$ ls
attr.json syndication_report_20161215_to_20161223.csv
items.csv
Shreyass-MBP:univision_poc shreyassrinivasan$

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