How to install pychecker?

[Thomas Heller]

"Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote in message news:jgmj9ucgm47i87dp6eie5l5frn65ntfrpl at 4ax.com...
> I thought I'd try this out.
>
> In the absence of any instructions (that I can find) I tried unzipping
> it to a directory and running setup.py.
>
> I got this:
>
> C:\Program Files\pychecker-0.8.10>setup.py
> usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>    or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>    or: setup.py --help-commands
>    or: setup.py cmd --help
>
> error: no commands supplied
>

The canonical way is 'setup.py install'. 'setup.py --help-commands'
shows you the available commands.

An even easier way, which does also give you the ability to
uninstall, is demonstrated in the ASPN Cookbook:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117248

Thomas