Updating python modules in edx-platform

Owned by Matthew DuBose (Deactivated)
Oct 20, 2022
1 min read

As part of the INCR project, some of the libraries within Open edX need to be updated in order to be python 3 compatible. Generally, to upgrade, a base.in file is updated followed by a

make upgrade command. Below are some quick steps to successfully upgrade the library:


  1. The make upgrade command needs to be run within the application shell of your devstack. For example, when upgrading a LMS module, run make lms-shell in your devstack and then run make upgrade.
  2. If you run into a "Could not find a version that matches" error during the upgrade, please review this section of OEP-18. The pipdeptree module can be used to determine the dependencies for each module. Keep in mind that your newly updated library listed in the INCR ticket may have new dependencies itself.