apps

My monorepo of python scripts, modules, and packages. I'm currently publishing this only to get help with some issues. Almost all of the files are gitignored. https://github.com/riverscuomo/apps/blob/master/.gitignore

Please let me know if this doesn't seem like a reasonable way to import and run a large number of packages on a regular schedule.

here is the report it prints after running each day.

Installation

Create the venv (use the name of the computer, such as G for desktop or 9 for laptop),

Make sure you have an approved version of Python (probably not the latest version) Currently we're on 3.11.5 "C:\Users\aethe\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python" -m venv .G "C:\Users\Rivers Cuomo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe" -m venv .9 Make sure you open a new terminal to activate the venv. Otherwise you'll be installing packages into the global python environment. !!! activate with .9\Scripts\activate .G\Scripts\activate !!!

Install the packages in requirements.txt into the venv\Lib\site-packages directory

Do this first: pip install -r requirements.txt

You'll notice the local packages are not installed. That's because they are not in the requirements.txt file. You need to install them separately.

cd gspreader pip install -e .

pip install -e crawlers/. pip install -e demos/. pip install -e kyoko/. pip install -e lyricprocessor/. pip install -e new_albums/. pip install -e rhymes/. pip install -e social/. pip install -e spotnik/. pip install -e gspreader/. pip install -e rivertils/.

Or as a one-liner

pip install -e crawlers/. && pip install -e demos/. && pip install -e kyoko/. && pip install -e new_albums/. && pip install -e social/. && pip install -e spotnik/. && pip install -e gspreader/. && pip install -e rivertils/.

The last 2 are published on pypi, so you technically could put them in requirements.txt, but I don't want to do that because I want to be able to edit them locally and have the changes take effect immediately?

Add the environment variables to your system

Find the environment variables in the .env file or look it up in other devices' System Environment Variables.

Upgrading python

Warning: this is non-trivial as some required packages may not be compatible with the latest version of python. (Numba, I'm looking at you.) So don't be greedy like ooo I'm gonna get the latest, fastest Python. Unfortunately the upgrade command doesn't work for me. So do this instead:

1. Download the latest version of python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ Use CMD instead of Powershell
2. Deactivate the old venv
3. rename the old venv: .G -> .G_old
4. Create a new venv with the new version of python, using the instructions above
5. !!! activate with .9\Scripts\activate .G\Scripts\activate !!!

Notes

To install the submodules in a way that you'll always have the latest commit, try this in each submodule directory: "If you do what's called an editable install you won't have to re-install your own code that you're actively editing. People typically do that with pip install -e . You can then point pip at the directory holding the code, e.g. . is common for the current directory."

pip install -e . = "Install the project found in the current directory".

Editable installs allow you to install your project without copying any files. Instead, the files in the development directory are added to Python’s import path. This approach is well suited for development and is also known as a “development installation”.

So if I ran pip install -e . on apps/, it wouldn't install all the projects in apps/ as packages. You need to install each project separately by navigating to their directory and running pip install -e . in each one. All you need to do in apps/ is run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all the packages in the requirements.txt file.

Daily Runs From the Maintenance.py Script:

I think maintenance.py is importing and running the (editable) installed version in .venv\Lib\site-packages\