Python environment to run "How To Guides"

[RMeli]

In the how-to-guides sometimes dependencies are assumed, sometimes they are installed with

!pip install

I suggest to uniform this by providing a conda and/or requirements.txt file/s so that a full environment can be created.

[vfdev-5]

@RMeli thanks for the suggestion! If we opt to provide a requirements.txt where we can store it such that it would be accessible, especially if a notebook is open with colab ?
We can think of adding a step to download it (for example with wget) from somewhere and then install it. However, wget solution may not always work on Win OS...
Maybe, !pip install dep1 dep2 could be more simple and cross-platform. What do you think ?

[RMeli]

OIC, is the assumption that most of those notebooks run on Google Colab? That explains why some packages are not installed, I believe they are readily available.

Maybe, !pip install dep1 dep2 could be more simple and cross-platform. What do you think ?

Yes, if everything is pip-installable then it would probably be the easiest/safest solution.

[vfdev-5]

is the assumption that most of those notebooks run on Google Colab?

Yeah, sort of implicit assumption as very easy to run notebooks on Colab