I’m developing a small Python webapp as some sort of finger exercise. Mostly a chatbot. I’m using the Quart framework, which is pretty much alike Flask, just async. Now I want to connect that to a LLM inference endpoint. And while I could do the HTTP requests myself, I’d prefer something that does that for me. It should support the usual OpenAI style API, in the end I’d like it to connect to things like Ollama and KoboldCPP. No harm if it supports image generation, agents, tools, vector databases, but that’s optional.

I’ve tried Langchain, but I don’t think I like it very much. Are there other Python frameworks out there? What do you like? I’d prefer something relatively lightweigt that gets out of the way. Ideally provider agnostic, but I’m mainly looking for local solutions like the ones I mentioned.

Edit: Maybe something that also connects to a Runpod endpoint, to do inference on demand (later on)? Or at least something which I can adapt to that?

  • ryedaftEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Try Simon Willison’s LLM library. Python and command line connection to LLMs, local or remote. Lots of blog posts about how to do various things. Also image examples.

    https://github.com/simonw/llm

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deOPEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      Thanks to all who sent suggestions, I think I’ll try this one first. Looks quite neat and ticks all the boxes. If the async plugin does it’s job, I can use that.