[Tutor] Re: How to "install" new package?

Lloyd Kvam pythontutor at venix.com
Fri Nov 14 20:41:37 EST 2003


The name and location of the "root" python directory should
not matter.  I've always used non-standard names and locations
in Windows with no difficulty.  Even if re-doing the install
to the standard location fixes your problem, I would be astonished
if the name and location were the real problem.

Branimir Petrovic wrote:

> 
> 
> If extract package to temp folder then passing package's
> setup.py with install switch to python.exe does not do
> the trick, may be there is something in Python's disutils 
> that breaks if the beast (Python) is to be found in 
> unexpected place?
> 
> Branimir
> 
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