Taking a fun course with Lonely Octopus, I’ve been learning how to use pandas to clean data for analysis, and also how to quickly build a proof of concept/MVP using Streamlit.
Installing Streamlit locally on Windows in Gitbash threw an error:
$ pip install streamlit
WARNING: Failed to write executable - trying to use .deleteme logic
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'C:\Python311\Scripts\watn311\Scripts\watchmedo.exe.deleteme'
“Watchmedo”? Sounded like malware. I got scared and shut off my wifi for a sec. Then I calmed down and decided to run it in a venv instead. Created the venv:
$ python -m venv myenv
Then activate it (I’m using Gitbash for my shell):
$ source myenv/Scripts/activate
(or source myenv/bin/activate
)
Then try again to install Streamlit and check if it installed properly:
$ pip install streamlit
$ streamlit --version
Streamlit, version 1.36.0
Now the moment of truth — run the little app:
$ streamlit run app.py
You can now view your Streamlit app in your browser.
Local URL: http://localhost:8501
It might also require installing OpenAI, so don’t forget to do that, too. BUT…
Running LM Studio is something I’m getting a lot more used to now. I’ve been playing with it and AnythingLLM for local document RAG chats.
So you don’t need to call OpenAI’s API — you can point your app at your local LM Studio server!
You have to grab the example code from inside LM Studio under “chat (python)”:
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:1234/v1", api_key="lm-studio")
![](https://studiozandra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lmstudio-settings-Capture-1024x575.png)
Paste that into your Streamlit app.py file, replacing the ‘client’ variable. Make sure the model is loaded up, and that the server is running.
![](https://studiozandra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/olaf-MemGPT-response-Capture-1024x624.png)
There are tons of settings to consider inside LM Studio. You also need to have enough memory to run the models! LM Studio’s Discord server is a good place to learn more.
“Watchmedo” really does sound like malware lmao!!! It’s like “watch me do…this to your computer” hahaha