feat: reduce code length for image demo

Image Viewing with Pillow/README.md

@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 
 This notebook is intended to be supplemental to the [Picture Perfect: Viewing Images with Snowpark for Python](https://medium.com/@btylerwhite/94f4c6a6a0f?source=friends_link&sk=487ac112536938f139707a1bdb84ddf1) article on Medium.
 
-### Setting it up.
+### Setting it up
 
 Clone the repo. If you're using macOS or Linux, execute the following commands:
 ```
-python3.8 -m venv venv
+python -m venv venv
 source venv/bin/activate
 pip install -r Image\ Viewing\ with\ Pillow/requirements.txt
 ```
 
-### Preparing the Environment
+### Notebook run
 
-First, we will create a dedicated database and a few schemas to keep our data organized within the database.
+The notebook will create the necessary objects and upload the images.

Image Viewing with Pillow/notebook.ipynb

@@ -1,40 +1,31 @@
 {
  "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "This shorthand method of connecting assumes you have setup a configuration file as documented at\n",
+    "[Connecting using the connections.toml file](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/python-connector/python-connector-connect#connecting-using-the-connections-toml-file).\n"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 1,
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "import os\n",
-    "\n",
     "import PIL.Image\n",
     "from snowflake.snowpark import Session\n",
     "\n",
-    "try:\n",
-    "    from dotenv import load_dotenv\n",
-    "except ImportError:\n",
-    "    def load_dotenv(**kwargs):\n",
-    "        pass\n",
-    "\n",
-    "load_dotenv(override=True)\n",
-    "\n",
-    "connection_params = {\n",
-    "    \"account\": os.environ.get(\"SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT\"),\n",
-    "    \"user\": os.environ.get(\"SNOWFLAKE_USER\"),\n",
-    "    \"password\": os.environ.get(\"SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD\"),\n",
-    "    \"role\": \"SYSADMIN\",\n",
-    "}\n",
-    "\n",
-    "session = Session.builder.configs(connection_params).create()"
+    "session = Session.builder.getOrCreate()"
    ]
   },
   {
    "attachments": {},
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "Create the objects for this demonstration."
+    "Create the objects for this demonstration.\n"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -76,7 +67,7 @@
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "Adjust our context."
+    "Adjust our context.\n"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -95,7 +86,7 @@
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "Load the stage."
+    "Load the stage.\n"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -124,7 +115,7 @@
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "List the contents of the stage."
+    "List the contents of the stage.\n"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -155,7 +146,7 @@
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "Stream and view the image."
+    "Stream and view the image.\n"
    ]
   },
   {

Image Viewing with Pillow/requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ipykernel
 Pillow
-python-dotenv
 snowflake-snowpark-python