import whisper failed. (python version related issues?)

[Nathan903]

System: kaggle Linux f40a250655be 5.15.120+ #1 SMP Wed Jul 26 10:54:59 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I first ran !pip install -U openai-whisper
Then importing whisper failed. The issue seemed to be related to python versions.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 3552, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)

  File "/tmp/ipykernel_27/3212043240.py", line 1, in <module>
    import whisper

  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/whisper/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from .audio import load_audio, log_mel_spectrogram, pad_or_trim

  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/whisper/audio.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .utils import exact_div

  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/whisper/utils.py", line 108
    if word_timings := segment.get("words", None):
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[phineas-pta]

need python > 3.8

[glangford]

Small correction, you need python >= 3.8

whisper/setup.py

Line 26 in b91c907

python_requires=">=3.8",