Issue with OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system in a background task

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I am having an issue with a background task where I am trying to use the CodeInterpreter to call OpenAI via the api codeinterpreterapi . This class is attempting to write to the file system, which I understand Anvil does not permit on its servers.

This is the code I have:

@anvil.server.background_task
def launch_code_interpreter_background(history, query):  
  print("launch_code_interpreter_background:", query)
  
  session = CodeInterpreterSession(openai_api_key=anvil.secrets.get_secret('OPENAI_API_KEY'), model="gpt-4")
  user_request = "Analyze this dataset and plot something interesting about it."
  files = [
    File.from_url(f"{anvil.server.get_app_origin()}/_/theme/...1.csv"),
    File.from_url(f"{anvil.server.get_app_origin()}/_/theme/...2.csv"),
    File.from_url(f"{anvil.server.get_app_origin()}/_/theme/...3.csv"),
  ]

  async def generate_response_coro():
    response = await session.generate_response(user_request, files=files, detailed_error=True)    
    return response

  response = asyncio.run(generate_response_coro())
  print('response', response)
  return response

When I run this code, I receive the following error:

Error in CodeInterpreterSession: OSError - [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '.codebox'

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!