Python Tool Pip upgrade message

[_richardr]

Alteryx.installPackages() function in Alteryx Python tool reports that pip should be upgraded.

You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 18.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

 I cannot get this to upgrade.  I have tried within the tool and from the command line where miniconda is located with no luck.

[PaulN · Accepted solution]

Hi @_richardr,

Thank you for posting!

Pip -the Python package manager used by Alteryx.installPackages()- tends to be pushy in terms of upgrade. So my first question would be : why would you like to upgrade?

If you would still to move forward -and you accept the fact that an error with pip upgrade may lead to a full reinstall of Alteryx Designer- then you could use the following commands from Python tool. Note that you will need to run Designer as administrator in the case of a admin version of the product

from ayx import Package
Package.installPackages(package='pip',install_type='install --upgrade')

Example:

Kind regards,

Paul Noirel

Sr Customer Support Engineer, Alteryx

[_richardr]

Reason is I have been trying to get geopandas to install and keep getting errors.  I was trying to resolve any other issues and the pip version that was 9 (9 to 18) revisions old kind of stood out.  

Unfortunately this did not help my geopandas issue.  I will probably use another library.

[PaulN]

Hey @_richardr,

Thanks for the feedback!

So I have tried to install geopandas on my machine -and failed. Geopandas has a few dependencies: one in particular -fiona- needs GDAL/OGR libraries to be installed on the machine. 

I have found following posts but I have not tested it myself: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34427788/how-to-successfully-install-pyproj-and-geopandas

Feel free to post if you manage to make it work!

Kind regards,

Paul Noirel

Sr Customer Support Engineer, Alteryx

[_richardr]

I tried that post before.  I was aware of the GDAL requirement, but that library is an even bigger problem.  I am going at this a little differently using pandas and shapely.  This is just a side project I was messing around with, I really would like to get some of the python geospatial tools going as there are some holes in Alteryx's native tools.

Thanks