Issue during pip install

[danielstreeter]

Description

pip install recommenders causes an issue with installing PyYAML. It appears that PyYAML 5.4.1 has a bug in it.

In which platform does it happen?

MacOS

How do we replicate the issue?

create a conda environment with python 3.9
run pip install recommenders

Expected behavior (i.e. solution)

Other Comments

[Miguel Fierro]

pyyaml is not a dependency of recommenders. I suggest to install other version of that library. In case it doesn't work, you might want to try recommenders from source.

[Andrew Sedler]

Also running into this issue. Wasn't able to find a workaround using another version of pyyaml or by installing from source. Do you have any other recommendations?

[Evan Cordulack]

@arsedler9 I ran into this problem earlier today. I got around it by downloading the "source distribution" from here https://pypi.org/project/recommenders/#files.

After copying these files to a directory inside my Anaconda environment, I edited part of setup.py so it would use newer versions of a few packages:

install_requires = [
    "numpy>=1.19",  # 1.19 required by tensorflow 2.6
    "pandas>1.0.3,<2",
    "scipy>=1.0.0,<2",
    "tqdm>=4.31.1,<5",
    "matplotlib>=2.2.2,<4",
    "scikit-learn>=1.4.0",
    "numba>=0.38.1,<1",
    "lightfm>=1.15,<2",
    "lightgbm>=4.2.0",
    "memory_profiler>=0.54.0,<1",
    "nltk>=3.4,<4",
    "seaborn>=0.8.1,<1",
    "transformers>=2.5.0,<5",
    "bottleneck>=1.2.1,<2",
    "category_encoders>=1.3.0,<2",
    "jinja2>=2,<3.1",
    "pyyaml>=6.0.1",
    "requests>=2.0.0,<3",
    "cornac>=1.1.2,<2",
    "retrying>=1.3.3",
    "pandera[strategies]>=0.6.5",  # For generating fake datasets
    "scikit-surprise>=1.0.6"
]

I might have changed more here than I needed to in the excerpt above, but the important part for me was changing the version for pyyaml to 6.0.1.

After I edited setup.py, I used pip to install the downloaded version of recommenders
pip install '<path to the edited /recommenders directory in my Anaconda environment files>' --verbose

I ran into some more problems after that, but I think I resolved all of them by installing various packages that the errors mentioned.

I hope this helps!

[Andrew Sedler]

Thanks @cordulack! Updating setup.py seems to have worked for me:

conda create -n recommenders python=3.9
conda activate recommenders
git clone [e-mail]:recommenders-team/recommenders.git
cd recommenders
git checkout 1.1.1

Edit this line to pyyaml>=6.0.1.

pip install -e .