cpan for python?

John Gabriele jmg3000 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 10:10:07 EST 2010


On Mar 2, 11:58 pm, John Bokma <j... at castleamber.com> wrote:
> Lie Ryan <lie.1... at gmail.com> writes:
> > On 03/03/2010 09:47 AM, TomF wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> >> There
> >> is also a program called cpan, distributed with Perl.  It is used for
> >> searching, downloading, installing and testing modules from the CPAN
> >> repository.  It's far more extensive than setuptools.  AFAIK the python
> >> community has developed nothing like it.
>
> > python have easy_install
>
> How easy is it to /remove/ something? ;-) (Last time I checked I read
> something like "manually remove the .egg"...
>

Have a look at [pip](http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pip). It should
support uninstalling packages.

---John



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