lamindb fails when IPython is not installed

[rcannood]

Report

It turns out IPython might not always be installed, but lamindb expects that it is.

Example:

docker run --rm -it --entrypoint=bash rocker/r2u:24.04

Inside the docker:

apt-get update && apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev
pip install 'lamindb[aws,bionty,wetlab]>=0.77.2' --break-system-packages
lamin connect laminlabs/lamindata
python3 -c 'import lamindb'

Which results in:

→ connected lamindb: laminlabs/lamindata
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/lamindb/__init__.py", line 98, in <module>
    from ._view import view
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/lamindb/_view.py", line 8, in <module>
    from IPython.display import HTML, display
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'IPython'

[Koncopd]

Thank you, we will fix.

[Koncopd]

Fix is here laminlabs/lamindb#2250