Webjobs Running Error (3587fd: ERR ) from zipfile

Question

I have the following small script in a file named fgh.py which I have been attempting to schedule as a webjob

import pandas as pd

df=pd.DataFrame({         


        

Answer 1

(Things are not quite straightforward in old Webjobs to run python task with dependencies. It has been quite some time, the world has moved on to Azure Function :))

However, since you still need to stick to Webjobs, below are the steps I followed which worked. I am using a batch file (.cmd) to run the python script due to the pre-requisites.

1. By default webjob supports python 2.7 at this moment. So, add python3 from 'extension' in your web app, In this case it was 3.6.4 x64 for me. This will add in path D:\home\python364x64\. How did I know? Kudus console :)

2. Create a requirements.txt file which contains pandas and numpy (note I had to explicitly add numpy version 1.19.3 due to an issue with latest 1.19.4 in Windows host at the time of this writing). Basically I used your fgh.py which depends on pandas which in turn depends on numpy.

pandas==1.1.4
numpy==1.19.3

3. Create a run.cmd file having the following content. Note 1st line is not needed. I was just checking python version.

D:\home\python364x64\python --version
D:\home\python364x64\python -m pip install --user --upgrade pip
D:\home\python364x64\python -m pip install --user certifi
D:\home\python364x64\python -m pip install --user virtualenv
D:\home\python364x64\python -m virtualenv .venv
.venv\Scripts\pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv\Scripts\python fgh.py

4. Zip fgh.py, run.bat and the requirements.txt files into a single zip. Below is the content of my zip.

5. Upload the zip for the webjob.
6. Run the job :)

Ignore the error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'certifi'", not needed.