Here are the commands I am running: $ python setup.py bdist_wheel usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] …] or: setup.py –help [cmd1 cmd2 …] or: setup.py –help-commands or: setup.py cmd –help error: invalid command ‘bdist_wheel’ $ pip –version pip 1.5.6 from /usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages (python 3.4) $ python -c “import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)” 2.1 $ python –version … Read more
Is there any significant difference between pip install -e /path/to/mypackage and the setuptools variant? python /path/to/mypackage/setup.py develop 4 Answers 4
I’ve read the documentation on egg entry points in Pylons and on the Peak pages, and I still don’t really understand. Could someone explain them to me? 3 Answers 3
Short Question What is the proper way to install pip, virtualenv, and distribute? Background In my answer to SO question 4314376, I recommended using ez_setup so that you could then install pip and virtualenv as follows: curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py sudo python ez_setup.py sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install virtualenv I originally pulled these instructions from … Read more
I have a requirements.txt file that I’m using with Travis-CI. It seems silly to duplicate the requirements in both requirements.txt and setup.py, so I was hoping to pass a file handle to the install_requires kwarg in setuptools.setup. Is this possible? If so, how should I go about doing it? Here is my requirements.txt file: guessit>=0.5.2 … Read more
Two options in setup.py develop and install are confusing me. According to this site, using develop creates a special link to site-packages directory. People have suggested that I use python setup.py install for a fresh installation and python setup.py develop after any changes have been made to the setup file. Can anyone shed some light … Read more
I’m deploying a Django app to a dev server and am hitting this error when I run pip install -r requirements.txt: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/var/www/mydir/virtualenvs/dev/bin/pip”, line 5, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point ImportError: No module named pkg_resources pkg_resources appears to be distributed with setuptools. Initially I thought this might not be … Read more
The Situation I’m trying to port an open-source library to Python 3. (SymPy, if anyone is wondering.) So, I need to run 2to3 automatically when building for Python 3. To do that, I need to use distribute. Therefore, I need to port the current system, which (according to the doctest) is distutils. The Problem Unfortunately, … Read more
I want to install pip. It should support Python 3, but it requires setuptools, which is available only for Python 2. How can I install pip with Python 3? 22 s 22 edit: Manual installation and use of setuptools is not the standard process anymore. If you’re running Python 2.7.9+ or Python 3.4+ Congrats, you … Read more
Python’s easy_install makes installing new packages extremely convenient. However, as far as I can tell, it doesn’t implement the other common features of a dependency manager – listing and removing installed packages. What is the best way of finding out what’s installed, and what is the preferred way of removing installed packages? Are there any … Read more
