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

[Clayton Kirkwood]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe.us at python.org] On
>Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano
>Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 4:16 PM
>To: tutor at python.org
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy...
>
>On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 03:37:12PM -0800, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
>[...]
>> >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.
>
>Correct. The lib directory is for the standard library. Third-party
>modules go into site-packages. Your own modules should go somewhere in
>your home directory.
>
>
>> >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?
>
>pip knows how to look up packages on PyPI (the Python Packaging Index).
>It handles downloading the package from PyPI and installing it.

Ah, much is more clear now. I was unable to find instruction and guidance on
line for this. Must have looked in totally wrong places. 

Thanks all,

Clayton


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