[Tutor] downloading the whl

john fabiani johnf at jfcomputer.com
Wed Oct 14 12:59:43 EDT 2020


Now I feel silly!  I did not realize the option of download was 
available.  Thanks for the help.


Johnf

On 10/14/20 8:22 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 10/14/20 9:03 AM, john fabiani wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I realize that I can use pip to install modules by using 'pip install
>> module'.  However, I have to do this for about 10 modules to install a
>> program.  Is it possible to retrieve the 'whl' file save it on a local
>> drive so I can instead of using the internet to retrieve the whl?
>>
>> If it possible to retrieve the module whl how is it done?  All of the
>> modules I need are on pypi.org.
>
> You can use the pip "download" command, or if you've done the install on
> one machine, the downloaded packages can be found in the cache (although
> you have to do a little hunting for that).
>
> You can put the modules you need into a requirements.txt file and use
> that to drive the install/download.
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