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Installation

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Installation

Before you start, you will need to setup your environment and install the appropriate packages. πŸ€— Evaluate is tested on Python 3.7+.

Virtual environment

You should install πŸ€— Evaluate in a virtual environment to keep everything neat and tidy.

  1. Create and navigate to your project directory:

    mkdir ~/my-project
    cd ~/my-project
  2. Start a virtual environment inside the directory:

    python -m venv .env
  3. Activate and deactivate the virtual environment with the following commands:

    # Activate the virtual environment
    source .env/bin/activate
    
    # Deactivate the virtual environment
    source .env/bin/deactivate

Once you have created your virtual environment, you can install πŸ€— Evaluate in it.

pip

The most straightforward way to install πŸ€— Evaluate is with pip:

pip install evaluate

Run the following command to check if πŸ€— Evaluate has been properly installed:

python -c "import evaluate; print(evaluate.load('exact_match').compute(references=['hello'], predictions=['hello']))"

This should return:

{'exact_match': 1.0}

source

Building πŸ€— Evaluate from source lets you make changes to the code base. To install from source, clone the repository and install with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/huggingface/evaluate.git
cd evaluate
pip install -e .

Again, you can check if πŸ€— Evaluate has been properly installed with:

python -c "import evaluate; print(evaluate.load('exact_match').compute(references=['hello'], predictions=['hello']))"