ValueError: Invalid pattern: '**' can only be an entire path component [Colab]
Could you please run the following code snippet in your environment and share the exact output? This will help check for any compatibility issues within the env itself. 

```
import datasets
import huggingface_hub
import fsspec

print("datasets version:", datasets.__version__)
print("huggingface_hub version:", huggingface_hub.__version__)
print("fsspec version:", fsspec.__version__)
``` ```bash
datasets version: 2.14.4
huggingface_hub version: 0.31.4
fsspec version: 2025.3.2
``` Version 2.14.4 is not the latest version available, in fact it is from August 08, 2023 (you can check here: https://pypi.org/project/datasets/#history)

Use pip install datasets==3.6.0 to install a more recent version (from May 7, 2025)

I also had the same problem with Colab, after updating to the latest version it was solved.

I hope it helps thank you @CleitonOERocha. it sure did help.

updating `datasets` to v3.6.0 and keeping `fsspec` on v2025.3.2 eliminates the issue. Very helpful, thank you!
### Describe the bug

I have a dataset on HF [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/kambale/luganda-english-parallel-corpus) that i've previously used to train a translation model [here](https://huggingface.co/kambale/pearl-11m-translate).

now i changed a few hyperparameters to increase number of tokens for the model, increase Transformer layers, and all

however, when i try to load the dataset, this error keeps coming up.. i have tried everything.. i have re-written the code a hundred times, and this keep coming up

### Steps to reproduce the bug

Imports:

```bash
!pip install datasets huggingface_hub fsspec
```

Python code:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

HF_DATASET_NAME = "kambale/luganda-english-parallel-corpus"

# Load the dataset
try:
    if not HF_DATASET_NAME or HF_DATASET_NAME == "YOUR_HF_DATASET_NAME":
        raise ValueError(
            "Please provide a valid Hugging Face dataset name."
        )

    dataset = load_dataset(HF_DATASET_NAME)

# Omitted code as the error happens on the line above 

except ValueError as ve:
    print(f"Configuration Error: {ve}")
    raise
except Exception as e:
    print(f"An error occurred while loading the dataset '{HF_DATASET_NAME}': {e}")
    raise e
```

now, i have tried going through this [issue](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/6737) and nothing helps 

### Expected behavior

loading the dataset successfully and perform splits (train, test, validation)

### Environment info

from the imports, i do not install specific versions of these libraries, so the latest or available version is installed

* `datasets` version: latest
* `Platform`: Google Colab
* `Hardware`: NVIDIA A100 GPU
* `Python` version: latest
* `huggingface_hub` version: latest
* `fsspec` version: latest