Automatically installing libraries?

[John Machin]

Chaz Ginger wrote:
> Here is a problem I am trying to solve; I am sure there must be an easy
> way to do it and I just don't know how.
>
> I have a rather large application that I am writing. To make it easy for
> the user to run I have them run a startup.py script. This script will
> try to load each of the third party libraries the application will need.
> If it is present, great. If it isn't, I would like to automatically
> install it. This is the heart of my problem: is there a Python
> equivalent to PERL's CPAN?
>

Check out setuptools:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

HTH,
John