Hi everyone I have a flow that required the `gevent` package

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Hi everyone I have a flow that required the `gevent` package `gevent` will patch the SSL library and requires the following lines to be added before `ssl` is imported in order to avoid an infinite import recursion ```import gevent monkey gevent monkey patch all ``` I am trying to deploy my flow to a Prefect Server instance but it seems I am not able to monkey patch early enough as I am seeing this infinite recursion error in one of my tasks Is there any way of forcing the server to do this monkey patch before executing the flow

Thomas Fredriksen · Answer

I should add that I am using the Kubernetes agent so I suppose that each task must execute the patch before they start

Kevin Kho · Answer

If you need this called before executing a flow or task maybe you can do it in a state handler so it gets called before the flow task is executed

Thomas Fredriksen · Answer

< Kevin Kho> it needs to be called at import time

Thomas Fredriksen · Answer

I am trying to implement a task for Locust <http locust io|locust io> but this gevent problem has halted my progress The only solution I can see is modifying the prefect CLI to do the monkey patch before even parsing the arguments but this kind of defeats the purpose of having a locust task in prefect in the first place

Thomas Fredriksen · Answer

actually found an issue about this <https github com PrefectHQ prefect issues 4227>

Kevin Kho · Answer

You can chime in on the issue and reopen it I think