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My first time using VS Code for Python development

My first time using VS Code for Python development

Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS, and web browsers. Not to be confused with Microsoft's Visual Studio, which is an IDE, VS Code is more of a rich text editor. A Python developer

Installing a custom version of a Python package with pip3

Installing a custom version of a Python package with pip3

pip (also known as pip3 in Python 3) is a package-management system (written in Python) and is used to install and manage Python software packages. The Problem I came to install a package called gradio using the command pip3 install gradio as shown: dev@apache-dev:/home/dev> pip3 install

Basic pip3 commands

Basic pip3 commands

pip (also known as pip3 in Python 3) is a package management system written in Python and is used to install and manage Python packages. If you are running Python 3 (which you probably/should), the use pip3 as opposed to pip. If you use pip3, you can be sure

Creating a custom AI chatbot with Python and OpenAI API

Creating a custom AI chatbot with Python and OpenAI API

I spent considerable time trying to follow various blogs out there to get an AI chatbot written in Python using the OpenAI API. All my attempts following blogs here, here, and here were unsuccessful, mostly related to Python dependency challenges. Each had slightly different solutions and I've learned

Using ChatGPT 4.0 to create a basic Python web application

Using ChatGPT 4.0 to create a basic Python web application

In another blog post, I created a command-line based Python 3 chatbot. This screenshot is an example of how the chatbot looked like with the request-response design: However, I wanted to create a web-based interface for this. I was relatively new to Python to I decided to leverage AI to

Bringing it together - The tools I used to create my AI clone

Bringing it together - The tools I used to create my AI clone

You may have seen my video interview with my AI clone. You may have seen the multiple blog posts I've posted on the various aspects of this journey. You may have even thought that I was actually engaging my AI avatar clone in real-time using some app on

Resolving Python packages circular dependency

Resolving Python packages circular dependency

When I installed the gradio package for Python, it pulled the latest version 4.38.1. pip3 install gradio During the installation it tried to install dependent packages, one of them being urllib3 as shown in the output: Installing collected packages: pydub, ffmpy, websockets, uvloop, uvicorn, urllib3, ujson, toolz, tomlkit,

Python package openai only installs as version 0.8.0

Python package openai only installs as version 0.8.0

I installed the Python package openai using the pip3 package installer on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 with the following command: pip3 install openai This command installs the latest compatible version of the package, which apparently is version 0.8.0: dev@devhost:/home/dev> pip show openai

Installing/upgrading Python using pyenv

Installing/upgrading Python using pyenv

I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and needed to upgrade my Python version. Shown here is my current version that is installed by default on this OS: dev@devhost:/home/dev> cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.4 (Plow) dev@devhost:/home/dev&

Cannot find module when executing Python code

Cannot find module when executing Python code

I ran this command to install certain Python packages: pip3 install langchain flask llama_index gradio openai pandas numpy glob2 datetime As you can see, flask is included. I then ran my Python code: python3 embeddings.py However, I received the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "

Resolving multiple GCC errors installing Python package 'langchain'

Resolving multiple GCC errors installing Python package 'langchain'

I tried installing the Python package langchain on an OCI Linux 8 instance using this command: pip3 install langchain==0.0.27 Error #1 I received the following GCC error where it could not find cc1plus1: gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=

Python: Testing Secure Connections

Python: Testing Secure Connections

Security control validation and enforcement are tasks we have regularly. We have created a small Python application that simplifies socket tests

AAP: Code Compatibility

AAP: Code Compatibility

Our good old Red Hat Ansible Tower was recently upgraded to the Ansible Automation Platform. Although the AAP adoption was fast, Ansible compatibility tack derailed half an O&M templates in our organization. The error message says, "Invalid data passed to 'loop', it requires a list,