installing any python module
Gabriel Genellina
gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Jul 11 04:18:50 EDT 2008
En Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:02:29 -0300, Bhagwat Kolde <bbkolde at gmail.com>
escribi�:
> What is the correct process of installing any external python module?
> Once we downloaded any python module,
>
> Q1) Where this module should be placed in python installation file
> structure?
If it is a single Python module, you can put it anywhere in the Python
path. A good place may be the site-packages subdirectory. Execute this
line to see the list of directories that are currently searched for
modules:
python -c "import sys; print '\n'.join(sys.path)"
More complex packages (containing many modules and its own internal
hierarchy) usually provide a setup.py script
> Q2) How to execute setup.py file?
Like any other script. For many Python packages, you only have to execute
this:
cd path/to/the/downloaded/and/uncompressed/package
python setup.py install
Please read the package documentation for any specific instructions. There
is a generic guide aimed at site administrators: "Installing Python
Modules" <http://docs.python.org/inst/>
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Gabriel Genellina
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