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[jeremy (Jeremy Howard)]

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Are notebooks now supposed to rely on a pre-installed fastai as being discussed in the other thread?

Yes you need to follow the directions in the other thread.

Use `pip install -e .` when developing fastai_v1

OK now that we’re not using dev_nb any more, we need to modify modules in fastai directly. Let’s not create symlinks anymore like we did in 0.7, but instead we’ll install a proper “editable install”. To do so, simply (from the fastai_v1 base dir): pip install -e . You should remove your old fastai 0.7 first, or create a new environment. This command installs a link in your site-packages directory to your cloned git repo, so edits to your fastai_v1 code will be usable anywhere in your environm…