Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 8 February 2016 at 00:38,  <dimva13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Running python setup.py develop doesn't work, it gives me this error: error: invalid command 'develop'

This is presumably because your setup.py script uses distutils rather
than setuptools: distutils doesn't have the develop command.

> Running pip install -e . does work.

That's because pip "injects setuptools" so that when you import
distutils in your setup.py your actually importing a monkey-patched
setuptools. You may as well import setuptools in your setup.py but
either way the recommended invocation is "pip install -e .".

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Oscar