[pyxl] xlrd 0.7.2 released!
python-excel at raf.org
python-excel at raf.org
Wed Feb 22 18:15:01 EST 2012
Chris Withers wrote:
> On 22/02/2012 00:37, python-excel at raf.org wrote:
> >was good for previous versions. two reasons that spring to mind
> >immediately are:
> >
> > - it makes it much easier to tell what version is installed
> > - it makes it much easier to uninstall the package
> >
> >i know that both of these are things that the python community
> >does not yet seem to find useful but everyone else seems to.
>
> That's because it's no longer best practice to polute the global
> python installation by installing packages directly into it.
>
> The recommended wisdom nowadays is to use a virtualenv and then pip
> install the package.
>
> I believe that will give you everything you need, please explain if
> it doesn't.
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
thanks. i'm sure that'll do nicely.
cheers,
raf
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