This guide explains how to setup your Python Bridge to be used by Saga. It includes information on prerequisites, installing Python, and installing dependencies.
Getting Python Bridge
You can get the Python Bridge server as part of Saga deliverables which are stored in the Saga&ESUI teams site here. At the time of writing the latest version of Saga available is 1.3.1.
Installing Python
The current version of Python Bridge where developed and tested using Python 3.9.5, but any Python 3.9.x version will suffice. At the moment of writing this guide the released version of 3.9 is Python 3.9.5 which you can download from here Python Release Python 3.9.5 | Python.org, please remember to download the 64-bit version of Python, some libraries are no compatible with the 32-bit version and will not work.
Remember to create a environment variable PYTHON_HOME, pointing to you current installation folder of Python
Creating and Starting a Virtual Environment
Once Python 3.9.x is installed, and poses a copy of Python Bridge, proceed to access the Python Bridge folder via console. Once there we will create a python virtual environment using the following command
python -m venv venv
This will create a folder named venv in our Python Bridge folder, a self-contained directory tree that contains a Python installation for a particular version of Python, plus a number of additional packages.
To be able to use this environment, we need to execute the activate script for this execute the command
For Linux
source venv/bin/activate
For Windows
venv\Scripts\activate
This will execute the virtual environment and your console should present the prefix
(venv) C:\Python Bridge>
Installing Python Bridge Dependencies
Once in the virtual environment proceed to install the Python Bridge dependencies, all the dependencies should be listed in a file called requirements.txt inside the Python Bridge folder. Install the dependencies by executing the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
If for any reason this command doesn't work try
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
This process may take a few minutes, since pip needs to download and install every dependency
You may see a trusted or SSL certificate error message when trying to install dependencies. This because some of the hosts are not trusted by the pip tool.
In that case you can tell pip to trust those hosts by adding them to a text file called "pip.ini" which you place in the "venv" folder. Create the file if it doesn't exist and add the following contents:
[global]
trusted-host = pypi.python.org
pypi.org
files.pythonhosted.org
Start Python Bridge Server
Finally to start the Python Bridge server, all you need to do is to execute the command:
python server.py
This will start the server in the port 5000
If it's the first time starting Python Bridge, it will download a couple of models, amounts them BERT base uncased model, which has a size of roughly 4Gb. Python Bridge will not be ready until all the models are downloaded.
If you do not wish to download the BERT model, go the the config.json file in the config folder and remove the Bert entry under model_types
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