python_basics

Setup

• Install Miniconda

  • Verify that you can create and use environments with conda command.

• Open terminal and go to root folder of the project (with environment.yml).

• Create the conda environment:

conda env create -f environment.yml

• If you later need to update the environment (where --prune removes whatever was removed from environment.yml):

conda env update -f environment.yml --prune

• NOTE: You can later remove this environment with:

conda remove -n vbg_basics --all

• Activate the conda environment:

conda activate vbg_basics

• Open Jupyter Lab to explore the examples:

jupyter lab

Environment Settings

Some samples will required environment settings in a ".env" file in the root directory of this project will be loaded via load_dotenv(override=True) and os.getenv("KEYNAME").

Here are some examples of some you might need to set:

HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN=...