Installation

If you just want to install encord-agents in your current environment, you can run:

python -m pip install encord-agents

ℹ️ This project requires python >= 3.10. If you do not have python 3.10, we recommend using, e.g., pyenv to manage your python versions.

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In an isolated environment (recommended)

There are multiple ways of maintaining python environments. Below,

Venv

To avoid installing encord-agents with your global python installation, you can create a virtual environment with venv and install it there.

First create a new virtual environment. In this example, we name it agents-venv but you can choose whatever.

python -m venv agents-venv

Once it's created, you can activate it. Activating it will make the modules that you installed in that virtual environment available in python:

source agents-venv/bin/activate

Now you should see the environment before the cursor in your terminal.

example

(agents-venv) $

Now install encord-agents as above:

python -m pip install encord-agents

Poetry

If you already have a poetry project, you can also add encord-agents to that project:

poetry add encord-agents

Conda

If you haven't already, create a conda environment:

conda create -n agents python>=3.10

For conda, we suggest activating your conda environment:

conda activate agents

Now you should see the environment before the cursor in your terminal.

example

(agents) $

Then, install encord-agents within the environment:

python -m pip install encord-agents

Dependencies

The dependencies of encord-agents are choosen to be lite. The only heavy dependencies that are somewhat heavy are opencv-python and numpy. To see the full list of dependencies, you can have a look here.