Bad release?

[jakelowen]

I just installed Whisper via
sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

and am getting a syntax error on basic CLI usage:

Seems like a bad release / bug?

[jongwook]

I just dropped Python 3.7 support in #889. I'd recommend upgrading to 3.8 or later, but in the meantime you can do:

pip3 uninstall whisper
pip3 install openai-python==20230124

to use the latest version supporting 3.7

[jakelowen]

Thanks @jongwook - Makes sense.

I'll leave a couple notes in case anyone else runs into this on Google Compute Engine:

It took me a while to get back to operational after this update because most of the deep learning optimized google compute engine instances I use are python 3.7 based and were resistant to updating versions. I finally gave up on using pre-baked images and installed everything manually from bare-metal.

Here are the commands that worked to get me back to running with a T4 GPU:

gcloud compute instances create whisper  \
    --zone=us-central1-a \
    --machine-type=n1-standard-4 \
    --network-interface=network-tier=PREMIUM,subnet=default \
    --maintenance-policy=TERMINATE \
    --provisioning-model=STANDARD \
    [email protected] \
    --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append \
    --accelerator=count=1,type=nvidia-tesla-t4 \
    --create-disk=auto-delete=yes,boot=yes,device-name=whisper,image=projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-11-bullseye-v20221206,mode=rw,size=50,type=projects/teufelsberg/zones/us-central1-a/diskTypes/pd-balanced \
    --no-shielded-secure-boot \
    --shielded-vtpm \
    --shielded-integrity-monitoring \
    --reservation-affinity=any


gcloud compute ssh --zone "us-central1-a" "whisper" 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-dev build-essential
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py


curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-gpu-installation/main/linux/install_gpu_driver.py --output install_gpu_driver.py
sudo python3 install_gpu_driver.py

sudo apt-get --assume-yes install ffmpeg
sudo pip3 install torch==1.9.0+cu111 torchvision==0.10.0+cu111 torchaudio==0.9.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html
sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git