Distro module error on Azure runbook

Arvid0 10

I'm starting out with Azure Automation runbooks, because I would like to schedule some python scripts, which will use openAI GPT via the official openai Python package. I have this script working locally.

After figuring out I needed to use the preview 3.10 version of Python in my runbook (I couldn't get the distro package working otherwise), and installed all dependencies manually on my Automation account, I ran into the following error when running my script:

The job failed because it could not install distro python package imported in automation account. Error: More than one distribution names were found in python module distro.

I've tried searching for solutions, installed an earlier version of the package (1.7.0, was using 1.8.0), but no success. I installed the distro-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl found on PyPi, but couldn't find a specific win-amd64 version. Any ideas how I might solve this, which could include using a different method to using GPT in my project? Thanks for any help.

Edit: I just found a very janky solution that works:

import subprocess
subprocess.run(["pip", "install", "distro"])

Would love to know if there is a better solution.

tbgangav-MSFT 10,416 Reputation points

2023-12-09T04:27:08.7833333+00:00

Hi @Arvid0 ,

I was not able to reproduce the error in my lab environment. I am reaching out to our internal product team to understand the reason for this error and get insights around it. Will keep you updated as I hear more information.
Flora Suen 0 Reputation points

2024-02-10T20:07:54.2733333+00:00

Hi - I have the exact same issue and distro is required as part of the AzureOpenAI module. Is there a solution to this issue? When I try to use the subprocess method, I still get the same Exception.
Miguel Castillo Rodriguez 0 Reputation points

2024-06-19T02:41:42.4566667+00:00

I have the same problem, got the same message with the distro module, but also with the dependency pydantic_core, it throws me this error:

" The job failed because it could not install pydantic_core python package imported in automation account. Error: Unexpected file structure in .whl file for python package pydantic_core. It is likely that the package is for an unsupported platform. Supported platform tags are - manylinux_2_17_x86_64 and manylinux2014_x86_64. "

even though i checked multiples times in different azure environments it was the correct platform wheel. Also using OpenAI module, and python 3.10 in azure automation.

Any help would be useful, I think best solution for now it´s @Arvid0 using the subprocess module to install pydantic_core and distro via pip.

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