[Distutils] Package name != filename, and: Python version information

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:52 AM 2/20/2007 +0100, Samuel Abels wrote:
>On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:27 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > Setuptools fixes this, and various other problems with distribution
> > filenames.  Unfortunately, changing this behavior in the distutils would
> > result in backward incompatibilities for people who are relying on its
> > current behavior.
>
>Thanks, I was not aware of setuptools.
>
>Unfortunately, my script has to run on a hosted server where I can not
>install this package.

setuptools can be installed to any PYTHONPATH directory; see:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#custom-installation-locations

Especially the sections on "Creating a Virtual Python" and "Traditional 
PYTHONPATH-based installation".  The "Creating a Virtual Python" may be 
especially useful to you, as it creates a virtual Python installation that 
gives you complete access to site-packages and the ability to install 
whatever packages you want, whether they're setuptools-based or not.


>  Is there any workaround that I could use?

For the file-naming problem, I don't know of any, no.  For the "can't 
install packages on a hosted server" problem, see the above for a 
workaround.  :)