On 6/24/2017 12:45 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
On 06/24/2017 09:40 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 6/23/2017 11:24 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
You can install blurb from pip:
% pip3.6 install blurbThis does not seem to work right. On Windows:
C:\Users\Terry>py -3 -m pip install blurb Collecting blurb Downloading blurb-1.0-py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: blurb Successfully installed blurb-1.0
Explorer shows that 3.6 site-packages has a 'blurb-1.0.dist-info' directory but neither blurb.py nor 'blurb/' is present. So the following are to be expected.
C:\Users\Terry>py -3 -m blurb C:\Programs\Python36\python.exe: No module named blurb
py -3
import blurb ... ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'blurb'
Serhiy reported a similar problem on, I presume, some flavor of Linux.
I replied to Serhiy; it's just "blurb", it's a command-line tool, it's not a package or a module. It should be a command on your path.
The reason I tried "<something> -m blurb" is because that is the standard and recommended way to run installed scripts on Windows. That is how I run pip and cherry_picker, for instance.
I found 'blurb' in <36dir>/Scripts/. The name and location are errors. directory is on the path. By default, none are.
- On Windows, python files need the .py extension.
- That directory is not currently on the path on my machine. I believe it once was, but installing 3.5.3 replaced it with the 3.5 /Scripts. On Windows, 3rd party installers must not presume that any /Scripts
Solution: name the file blurb.py and put it in site-packages. This is standard and what is done by all other pip-installs that I have run. Put a copy in /Scripts if you want, but that is really optional and only sometimes effective.
TBH I don't know if installation of a command-line tool like that works on Windows. The tool itself was ported to Windows by Zach at the PyCon core dev sprints last month, though that predates the PyPI work, and in any case I could have broken the Windows support since then.
Unfortunately I'm no longer a qualified Windows developer, so if it doesn't work on Windows I fear someone will have to send me a PR.
I only know what the end result should be. Pip-installed Cherry_picker works on Windows, so copy from the spec files for that, or ask whoever wrote the pip-upload.