Is there a way to find all Python PyPI packages that were installed with easy_install or pip? I mean, excluding everything that was/is installed with the distributions tools (in this case apt-get on Debian). 18 Answers 18
I need to install a package from PyPi straight within my script. Maybe there’s some module or distutils (distribute, pip etc.) feature which allows me to just execute something like pypi.install(‘requests’) and requests will be installed into my virtualenv. 11 Answers 11
My Python package has a setup.py which builds fine locally on Ubuntu Trusty and on a fresh Vagrant Ubuntu Trusty VM when I provision it like this: sudo apt-get install python python-dev –force-yes –assume-yes –fix-broken curl –silent –show-error –retry 5 https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python2.7 sudo -H pip install setuptools wheel virtualenv –upgrade But when I … Read more
I have installed a python package with python setup.py install. How do I uninstall it? 17 s 17 Note: Avoid using python setup.py install use pip install . You need to remove all files manually, and also undo any other stuff that installation did manually. If you don’t know the list of all files, you … 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
Can anyone please explain what setup.py is and how it can be configured or used? 10 setup.py is a python file, the presence of which is an indication that the module/package you are about to install has likely been packaged and distributed with Distutils, which is the standard for distributing Python Modules. This allows you … Read more
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
