[Python-ideas] from __pip__ import

[Joonas Liik]

On 19 September 2016 at 19:55, אלעזר <elazarg at gmail.com> wrote:
> A library in PyPi  still requires installing it, which undermine many of the
> benefits. It won't help me with my gist/activestate recipe, code that I send
> to a friend, etc. I want to lower the barrier of inexperienced users.
>
> As a documentation of dependencies it will suffice indeed.
>
> Elazar
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:38 PM Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/19/2016 09:25 AM, אלעזר wrote:
>>
>> > Many proposals to add something to stdlib are rejected here with the
>> > suggestion to add such library to pypi first. As noted by someone, pypi is
>> > not as reachable as stdlib, and one should install that package first, which
>> > many people don't know how. Additionally, there is no natural distinction
>> > between 3rd party dependencies and in-project imports (at least in tiny
>> > projects).
>> >
>> > This can be made easier if the first line of the program will declare
>> > the required library, and executing it will try to download and install that
>> > library if it is not installed yet. Additionally, the 3rd party dependencies
>> > will be more explicit, and editors can then allow you to search for them as
>> > you type.
>> >
>> > Of course it is *not* an alternative for real dependency management, but
>> > it will ease the burden on small scripts and tiny projects - which today
>> > simply break with errors that many users does not understand, instead of
>> > simply asking permission to install the dependency.
>>
>> This should start out as a library on PyPI.  (Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)
>>
>> Actually, it should.  Perhaps a name of "import_pip" would make sense?
>> Any hurdles faced by this library would be (mostly) the same as a stdlib
>> version.
>>
>> --
>> ~Ethan~
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using pip from within python is not that difficult already.
as can be seen with a glance to:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12332975/installing-python-module-within-code