In workflow libraries, search for a python library like "pandas"
Result: No library despite it actually being in the list when I clear the search term.
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Hi Alan, thank you for pointing this out. Engineering has been working on this issue, and it will hopefully be resolved soon. For now you should see this message:
For now we are advising that you add libraries that are not in the preset list by manually putting them in the requirements.txt. Sorry for the inconvenience there!
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@Taylor_M cheers, a bit of feedback on the requirements.txt for python:
- I also needed to add pdfplumber for better table parsing of pdfs
- I tried searching and hit the above issue, so I manually had a look through the list but couldn't see pdfplumber
- I then opened up requirements.txt and added a line "pdfplumber" and clicked save
- Notice no lint/errors, but it just ignores my library request, because I didn't specify a version (I think)
- After refreshing the page and seeing pdfplumber wasn't attached and failed when running my python script, I assumed the requirements.txt file was more for fine tuning versions of the predefined libraries only.
It wasn't until an hour later when I was asking GPT for workarounds and alternatives, that I discovered requirements.txt needs a version to work (in retool workflows, usually it doesn't).
So maybe some lint/helper text/error on-save would help promote how powerful requirements.txt is, because I've ended up with a really slick workflow parsing complex pdf's in seconds, and I was so close to abandoning this workflow attempt over the lack of pdfplumber.
Thanks!
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Hi Alan,
Glad your workflow is working now!
Appreciate the feedback and detailing out your experience. That would be frustrating, and I agree that would be a great improvement to using requirements.txt to have a some kind of prompt there. I am going to put in a feature request for that. Great suggestion!