{
  "id": 230534,
  "title": "OK/Possible to add external pip package?",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2021/discussion/230534",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-04-04T09:54:06.989305300Z",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>Never really entered a 'code' competition before. Is it possible to add additional pip packages? </p>\n<p>The competition rules say that internet must be disabled when submitting an entry so suspect it would fail if I just included a <code>!pip install ...</code> in the notebook but would be good to get confirmation if there is another means?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1262457",
      "postDate": "04/04/2021 09:54:06",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>Never really entered a 'code' competition before. Is it possible to add additional pip packages? </p>\n<p>The competition rules say that internet must be disabled when submitting an entry so suspect it would fail if I just included a <code>!pip install ...</code> in the notebook but would be good to get confirmation if there is another means?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi,\n\nNever really entered a 'code' competition before. Is it possible to add additional pip packages? \n\nThe competition rules say that internet must be disabled when submitting an entry so suspect it would fail if I just included a `!pip install ...` in the notebook but would be good to get confirmation if there is another means?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1265306",
      "postDate": "04/06/2021 19:24:25",
      "content": "<p>This is my question as well. I also have some private code that I can reuse from earlier projects which is not installable as a pip package. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This is my question as well. I also have some private code that I can reuse from earlier projects which is not installable as a pip package.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1266172",
      "postDate": "04/07/2021 14:35:36",
      "content": "<p>the way to do it is to upload the git repo to a kaggle dataset and install from it in your notebook.</p>\n<p>An example with torch.librosa and timm is provided in this notebook for instance: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213/pytorch-training-birdclef2021-starter\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213/pytorch-training-birdclef2021-starter</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "the way to do it is to upload the git repo to a kaggle dataset and install from it in your notebook.\n\nAn example with torch.librosa and timm is provided in this notebook for instance: https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213/pytorch-training-birdclef2021-starter",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1266403",
      "postDate": "04/07/2021 18:06:23",
      "content": "<p>great - thanks for your help :-) </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "great - thanks for your help :-)",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1265306,
      "author_name": "erikbrakkee",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/06/2021 19:24:25",
      "content": "<p>This is my question as well. I also have some private code that I can reuse from earlier projects which is not installable as a pip package. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1266172,
      "author_name": "cpmpml",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/07/2021 14:35:36",
      "content": "<p>the way to do it is to upload the git repo to a kaggle dataset and install from it in your notebook.</p>\n<p>An example with torch.librosa and timm is provided in this notebook for instance: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213/pytorch-training-birdclef2021-starter\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213/pytorch-training-birdclef2021-starter</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1266403,
          "author_name": "stewrobertson79",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/07/2021 18:06:23",
          "content": "<p>great - thanks for your help :-) </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1262457": "Hi,\n\nNever really entered a 'code' competition before. Is it possible to add additional pip packages? \n\nThe competition rules say that internet must be disabled when submitting an entry so suspect it would fail if I just included a `!pip install ...` in the notebook but would be good to get confirmation if there is another means?",
    "1265306": "This is my question as well. I also have some private code that I can reuse from earlier projects which is not installable as a pip package.",
    "1266172": "the way to do it is to upload the git repo to a kaggle dataset and install from it in your notebook.\n\nAn example with torch.librosa and timm is provided in this notebook for instance: https://www.kaggle.com/hidehisaarai1213/pytorch-training-birdclef2021-starter",
    "1266403": "great - thanks for your help :-)"
  },
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}