multifit does'nt work on Google Colab about multifit

[andreagrusso]

I've resolved the issue by using:
!pip install git+https://github.com/n-waves/multifit.git !pip install sacremoses

I don't know what is the difference with the other way but now it works. I hope it will help other users!

[mkardas]

Hi Andrea,

I guess that instead of importing the multifit module you've somehow imported the repository directory. Can you verify that by inspecting multifit.__path__?

[andreagrusso]

Hi, thank you for your reply!
I think that you're right as multifit.__path__ returns

_NamespacePath(['/content/multifit'])

and inspecting the above path I got exactly the repository directory

fastai_contrib
prepare_cls.py
prepare_xnli.py
sotabench
get_preprocessed_wikis.sh
prepare_imdb.sh
prepare_xnli.sh
split-cls.py
LICENSE
prepare_mldoc.py
README.md
multifit
prepare_wiki-en.sh
requirements.txt
notebooks
prepare_wiki.sh
setup.py

I've tried again to install setup.py as I did on my local machine !python /content/multifit/setup.py install but the problem persists. I don't understand what I am doing wrong.

[mkardas]

It depends on what's on your $PYTHON_PATH. Installing directly from repository works as the repository directory is not cloned into your current working directory.