I’m trying to fix up one of my virtualenvs – I’d like to reset all of the installed libraries back to the ones that match production. Is there a quick and easy way to do this with pip? 30 s 30 I’ve found this snippet as an alternative solution. It’s a more graceful removal of … Read more
I know pip is a package manager for python packages. However, I saw the installation on IPython’s website use conda to install IPython. Can I use pip to install IPython? Why should I use conda as another python package manager when I already have pip? What is the difference between pip and conda? 13 s … Read more
A tweet reads: Don’t use easy_install, unless you like stabbing yourself in the face. Use pip. Why use pip over easy_install? Doesn’t the fault lie with PyPI and package authors mostly? If an author uploads crap source tarball (eg: missing files, no setup.py) to PyPI, then both pip and easy_install will fail. Other than cosmetic … Read more
Using pip, is it possible to figure out which version of a package is currently installed? I know about pip install XYZ –upgrade but I am wondering if there is anything like pip info XYZ. If not what would be the best way to tell what version I am currently using. 16 s 16 As … Read more
I’m having trouble installing a Python package on my Windows machine, and would like to install it with Christoph Gohlke’s Window binaries. (Which, to my experience, alleviated much of the fuss for many other package installations). However, only .whl files are available. http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#jpype But how do I install .whl files? Notes I’ve found documents on … Read more
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I am having trouble installing psycopg2. I get the following error when I try to pip install psycopg2: Error: pg_config executable not found. Please add the directory containing pg_config to the PATH or specify the full executable path with the option: python setup.py build_ext –pg-config /path/to/pg_config build … or with the pg_config option in ‘setup.cfg’. … Read more
Here is the problem: I have a requirements.txt file that looks like: BeautifulSoup==3.2.0 Django==1.3 Fabric==1.2.0 Jinja2==2.5.5 PyYAML==3.09 Pygments==1.4 SQLAlchemy==0.7.1 South==0.7.3 amqplib==0.6.1 anyjson==0.3 … I have a local archive directory containing all the packages + others. I have created a new virtualenv with bin/virtualenv testing Upon activating it, I tried to install the packages according to … Read more
This question’s answers are a community effort. Edit existing answers to improve this post. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I spent most of the day yesterday searching for a clear answer for installing pip (package manager for Python). I can’t find a good solution. How do I install it? 2 21
I am trying to install version 1.2.2 of MySQL_python, using a fresh virtualenv created with the –no-site-packages option. The current version shown in PyPi is 1.2.3. Is there a way to install the older version? I have tried: pip install MySQL_python==1.2.2 However, when installed, it still shows MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6.egg-info in the site packages. Is this a … Read more
