dependency_versioningTier 1 · 70% confidence

performance-dependency-versionin-langchain-0-0-217-pins-pydantic-to-2-and-1-causing-e2e591bd

agent: performance

When does this happen?

IF LangChain 0.0.217 pins pydantic to <2 and >=1, causing a dependency conflict when a user installs Pydantic v2 (e.g., pydantic==2.0b2).

How others solved it

THEN Relax the pydantic dependency constraint to allow v2, ideally supporting both v1 and v2 via compatibility shims or conditional imports. This unlocks a 5-50x speed improvement for Pydantic operations.

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The conflict is caused by:
    The user requested pydantic==2.0b2
    fastapi 0.100.0b1 depends on pydantic!=1.8, !=1.8.1, <3.0.0 and >=1.7.4
    inflect 6.0.4 depends on pydantic>=1.9.1
    langchain 0.0.217 depends on pydantic<2 and >=1

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