Exception during agent creation on Windows

[Bilokin]

Hello,

I must confess that I use Anaconda on Windows PC to run smolagents, and version 1.7.0 was running fine, but I cannot run version 1.8.0 and higher because the following line crashes the agent creation:

smolagents/src/smolagents/agents.py

Line 651 in d74837b

importlib.resources.files("smolagents.prompts").joinpath("toolcalling_agent.yaml").read_text()

I can confirm that I can run these versions on Linux environments, but on Windows it throws the following exception:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '[D:\\Documents\\anaconda3\\envs\\new_sandbox\\Lib\\site-packages\\smolagents\\code_agent.yaml](file:///D://Documents//anaconda3//envs//new_sandbox//Lib//site-packages//smolagents//code_agent.yaml)'

My version of python on Windows is 3.12.3

So, somehow, prompts is a resource on Linux and not a resource on Windows. As a private workaround I created __init__.py file in the prompts directory and it worked.

Could you please tell me where this should be fixed?
If this is a problem with importlib, then I would like to report it, because I need GitHub points really badly...

[sysradium]

@Bilokin which python version are you using?

[Bilokin]

It is 3.12.3 on Windows, I just added that to the description

[sysradium]

Should then work without __init__.py ...
Out of curiosity can you try replacing that with:

import os
prompt_templates = prompt_templates or yaml.safe_load(
    open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "prompts", "toolcalling_agent.yaml")).read()
)

and another option

import pkgutil
prompt_templates = prompt_templates or yaml.safe_load(
    pkgutil.get_data("smolagents", os.path.join("prompts", "toolcalling_agent.yaml"))
)

[Bilokin]

I tried the first option on clean reinstall and it works as well, thanks!

[sysradium]

@Bilokin can you try the second one as well? So to figure out which way to go. Because the first one is by far not the best one. The second one is better.