pip3 install openai does not install required dependencies

[crbellis]

Describe the bug

When creating a new environment and running pip3 install openai the following modules are required to run some functions within the openai.embedding_utils:

• matplotlib
• plotly

To Reproduce

1. create a new python environment ex: python3 -m venv venv
2. activate env, ex: source venv/bin/activate
3. import the embedding_utils function get_embedding
4. run file
5. expected output:
   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'matplotlib'
   and after installing matplotlib
   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'plotly'

Code snippets

import openai
from openai.embeddings_utils import get_embedding
"""
will receive the ModuleNotFoundErrors mentioned above. 
Expected result would be: install the above dependencies when installing openai
"""

OS

macOS

Python version

Python v3.10.5

Library version

openai-python v0.26.5

[eavanvalkenburg]

If you want to use those embeddings functions do pip install openai[embeddings] or add openai[embeddings] to the requirements file.

[crbellis]

@eavanvalkenburg thanks, looking at the source and commit history it seems like that is expected behavior (e.g. commit reducing deps size).

As a user I would expect all dependencies to be install when running pip install openai. It seems slightly odd that after installing openai, and trying to use utilities within the package, to then find out I am missing required dependencies to run those utilities.

This is maybe more of a design philosophy than an actual bug, so I'll close this out.