[Tutor] yes, I am being lazy...

[Clayton Kirkwood]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe.us at python.org] On
>Behalf Of Walter Prins
>Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 2:25 PM
>Cc: python mail list
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy...
>
>Hi,
>
>On 23 November 2014 at 20:50, Clayton Kirkwood <crk at godblessthe.us>
>wrote:
>> >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe.us at python.org] On
>> >Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano That's because it's not right.
>> >
>> >You're supposed to run setup.py. From the Windows command line, you
>> >run something like:
>> >
>> >cd directory/where/you/unpacked/the/files
>> >python3.4 setup.py install
>>
>> Ya know, that is exactly what I did (used build yesterday) this
>> morning (used install) and it still put the files in a subdirectory of
>> the source directory, not over /python34/lib. Is there supposed to be
>> a path variable changed somewhere? There are no instructions in plain
>> sight except if I want to publish. How to install must be part of the
>> setup module. The package also includes urllib3 and it is not being
>> made in the /python/lib directory either.
>
>You must be mistaken, setup.py does not put stuff under the source
>directory. Please also have a look under c:\python34\Lib\site-packages,
>where the package (.egg) folder is supposed to be put -- I've just
>downloaded the zip and installed, and this (as is typical) is where it
>put the file(s).
>
>For reference, when you run the installation command, some of the last
>lines of output in your console window should be something like:
>----------------
>[snip]
>creating build\bdist.win32\egg\EGG-INFO
>copying requests.egg-info\PKG-INFO -> build\bdist.win32\egg\EGG-INFO
>copying requests.egg-info\SOURCES.txt -> build\bdist.win32\egg\EGG-INFO
>copying requests.egg-info\dependency_links.txt ->
>build\bdist.win32\egg\EGG-INFO
>
>copying requests.egg-info\not-zip-safe -> build\bdist.win32\egg\EGG-INFO
>copying requests.egg-info\requires.txt -> build\bdist.win32\egg\EGG-INFO
>copying requests.egg-info\top_level.txt -> build\bdist.win32\egg\EGG-
>INFO creating dist creating 'dist\requests-2.4.3-py3.3.egg' and adding
>'build\bdist.win32\egg' to it removing 'build\bdist.win32\egg' (and
>everything under it) Processing requests-2.4.3-py3.3.egg creating
>c:\python33\lib\site-packages\requests-2.4.3-py3.3.egg
>Extracting requests-2.4.3-py3.3.egg to c:\python33\lib\site-packages
>Adding requests 2.4.3 to easy-install.pth file
>
>Installed c:\python33\lib\site-packages\requests-2.4.3-py3.3.egg
>Processing dependencies for requests==2.4.3 Finished processing
>dependencies for requests==2.4.3
>-----------------
>Could you paste what your output actually was?  Perhaps something else
>going on.

It is what you have above. However, I thought new modules and packages were
supposed to put something in the /python34/lib directory. Are you saying
that downloaded packages are only supposed to end up in the site-packages
directory? Requests also installs urllib3. It doesn't show up in lib either.

>
>As an aside -- it's **much** easier to use "pip" to install packages
>into python,  "pip" will automatically download and correctly install a
>package into your python environment. And, it is included on Windows on
>Python 3.4+ (previous versions you have to install pip by hand.)
>Consequently, with a standard Python 3.4 install (as you appear to
>have?), all you need to do to install a module like requests, is enter
>the following commands:
>
>cd c:\Python34\Scripts
>pip install requests

I will use this in the future! How does it know where the package origin is?
Thanks

Clayton

>
>And done. :) Note you can omit the first command if you ensure
>c:\Python34\Scripts is on your PATH and the only version of pip
>reachable, or you explicitly reference it in the command.  If you're
>ever unsure *which* pip you're reaching (in case you've got multiple
>pips installed etc), you can use the -V switch to have it tell you.
>
>HTH,
>
>
>Walter
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