When using autogen docker, is it always necessary to reinstall modules?

[skeletonwarrior]

When using autogen docker, is it always necessary to reinstall modules?

I have already used the request module, but
It seems that the process of installing the requests module is repeated every time the script is run. Is there a way to reuse a module once installed? I'm curious if there's something I need to configure in Docker.

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My Script

import autogen
import os
import openai

openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")

config_list = [
    {
        'model': 'gpt-4',
        'api_key': openai.api_key,
    }
]


# create an AssistantAgent named "assistant"
assistant = autogen.AssistantAgent(
    name="assistant",
    llm_config={
        "cache_seed": 42,  # seed for caching and reproducibility
        "config_list": config_list,  # a list of OpenAI API configurations
        "temperature": 0,  # temperature for sampling
    },  # configuration for autogen's enhanced inference API which is compatible with OpenAI API
)
# create a UserProxyAgent instance named "user_proxy"
user_proxy = autogen.UserProxyAgent(
    name="user_proxy",
    human_input_mode="NEVER",
    max_consecutive_auto_reply=10,
    is_termination_msg=lambda x: x.get("content", "").rstrip().endswith("TERMINATE"),
    code_execution_config={
        "work_dir": "coding",
        "use_docker": "python:3",  # set to True or image name like "python:3" to use docker
    },
)
# the assistant receives a message from the user_proxy, which contains the task description
user_proxy.initiate_chat(
    assistant,
    message="""Check the prices of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums on Upbit and tell me the added value.""",
)

Console Result

/usr/local/bin/python3.9 /Users/dnshin2/Documents/tomb/autoGen.py 
user_proxy (to assistant):

Check the prices of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums on Upbit and tell me the added value.

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assistant (to user_proxy):

To solve this task, we need to fetch the current prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum from the Upbit API, then calculate the total value of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums. 

Here is the Python code to do this. It uses the `requests` library to send HTTP requests to the Upbit API. If you don't have the `requests` library installed, you can install it by running `pip install requests` in your terminal.

```python
# filename: crypto_value.py

import requests

def get_price(crypto):
    url = f"https://api.upbit.com/v1/ticker?markets=KRW-{crypto}"
    response = requests.get(url)
    data = response.json()
    return data[0]['trade_price']

btc_price = get_price('BTC')
eth_price = get_price('ETH')

total_value = 2 * btc_price + 3 * eth_price

print(f"The total value of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums is {total_value} KRW.")

You can save this code in a file named crypto_value.py and run it with Python.

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EXECUTING CODE BLOCK 0 (inferred language is python)...
user_proxy (to assistant):

exitcode: 1 (execution failed)
Code output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "crypto_value.py", line 3, in
import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

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assistant (to user_proxy):

It seems like the 'requests' module is not installed in your Python environment. You can install it using pip, which is a package manager for Python. Here is the command to install 'requests':

pip install requests

After running this command, you should be able to execute the Python script without any issues.

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EXECUTING CODE BLOCK 0 (inferred language is sh)...
user_proxy (to assistant):

exitcode: 0 (execution succeeded)
Code output:
Collecting requests
Obtaining dependency information for requests from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/70/8e/0e2d847013cb52cd35b38c009bb167a1a26b2ce6cd6965bf26b47bc0bf44/requests-2.31.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata
Downloading requests-2.31.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.6 kB)
Collecting charset-normalizer<4,>=2 (from requests)
Obtaining dependency information for charset-normalizer<4,>=2 from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/99/b0/9c365f6d79a9f0f3c379ddb40a256a67aa69c59609608fe7feb6235896e1/charset_normalizer-3.3.2-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl.metadata
Downloading charset_normalizer-3.3.2-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl.metadata (33 kB)
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5 (from requests)
Obtaining dependency information for idna<4,>=2.5 from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c2/e7/a82b05cf63a603df6e68d59ae6a68bf5064484a0718ea5033660af4b54a9/idna-3.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata
Downloading idna-3.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.9 kB)
Collecting urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 (from requests)
Obtaining dependency information for urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/96/94/c31f58c7a7f470d5665935262ebd7455c7e4c7782eb525658d3dbf4b9403/urllib3-2.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata
Downloading urllib3-2.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.4 kB)
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests)
Obtaining dependency information for certifi>=2017.4.17 from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/64/62/428ef076be88fa93716b576e4a01f919d25968913e817077a386fcbe4f42/certifi-2023.11.17-py3-none-any.whl.metadata
Downloading certifi-2023.11.17-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.2 kB)
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Installing collected packages: urllib3, idna, charset-normalizer, certifi, requests
Successfully installed certifi-2023.11.17 charset-normalizer-3.3.2 idna-3.6 requests-2.31.0 urllib3-2.1.0
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 23.2.1 -> 23.3.1
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip

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assistant (to user_proxy):

Great, the 'requests' module has been successfully installed. Now, you can run the Python script again to get the total value of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums. Here is the script again for your convenience:

# filename: crypto_value.py

import requests

def get_price(crypto):
    url = f"https://api.upbit.com/v1/ticker?markets=KRW-{crypto}"
    response = requests.get(url)
    data = response.json()
    return data[0]['trade_price']

btc_price = get_price('BTC')
eth_price = get_price('ETH')

total_value = 2 * btc_price + 3 * eth_price

print(f"The total value of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums is {total_value} KRW.")

You can save this code in a file named crypto_value.py and run it with Python.

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EXECUTING CODE BLOCK 0 (inferred language is python)...
user_proxy (to assistant):

exitcode: 0 (execution succeeded)
Code output:
The total value of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums is 122463000.0 KRW.

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assistant (to user_proxy):

Great! The script has successfully fetched the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum from the Upbit API and calculated the total value.

The total value of 2 Bitcoins and 3 Ethereums is 122,463,000 KRW.

Please verify this value with the current prices on the Upbit website or app, as cryptocurrency prices can fluctuate rapidly.

TERMINATE

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Process finished with exit code 0

[gagb]

@sonichi @afourney can help answer per experience with docker. Also candidate to add to FAQ

[sonichi]

The "use_docker" arg in an agent's code_execution_config will be set to the name of the image containing the change after execution, when the conversation finishes.
You can save that image name. For a new conversation, you can set "use_docker" to the saved name of the image to start execution there.
Agreed that this should be added to FAQ as I've answered this question a number of times. Any volunteers?