[Python-ideas] install pip packages from Python prompt

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/1/2017 5:47 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> When pip installs a package into site_packages, does it at any point run 
>   package-specific installation code?  setup.py?  More specifically, can 
> pip install an IDLE extension. If so, I think installing pipgui should 
> add 'x_pipgui.py' to idlelib, if it exists, and add a section to 
> idlelib/config-extension.def.  Using the existing extension mechanism 
> would be an alternative to patching IDLE to conditionally add pipgui to 
> some menu.

I meant to add that using the existing extension mechanism would allow 
pipgui to be run from 3.5 IDLE or even earlier, depending on how it is 
coded and the tcl/tk installed on the machine.  Pipgui really needs ttk, 
which requires tcl/tk >= 8.5, but that has been true on Python Windows 
installs at least since 2.7.

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Terry Jan Reedy