Questions tagged [setuptools]
setuptools is a set of enhancements to Python's distutils which simplify building, distribution and installation of Python packages.
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Why use pip over easy_install?
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 ...
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How do I remove packages installed with Python's easy_install?
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 ...
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How to install pip with Python 3?
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?
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Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?
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 ...
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No module named pkg_resources
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", ...
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Python setup.py develop vs install
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 ...
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Reference requirements.txt for the install_requires kwarg in setuptools setup.py file
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 ...
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Standard way to embed version into Python package?
Is there a standard way to associate version string with a Python package in such way that I could do the following?
import foo
print(foo.version)
I would imagine there's some way to retrieve that ...
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Explain Python entry points?
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?
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What's the proper way to install pip, virtualenv, and distribute for Python?
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 ...
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"pip install --editable ./" vs "python setup.py develop"
Is there any significant difference between
pip install -e /path/to/mypackage
and the setuptools variant?
python /path/to/mypackage/setup.py develop
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How can I get the version defined in setup.py (setuptools) in my package?
How could I get the version defined in setup.py from my package (for --version, or other purposes)?
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setuptools vs. distutils: why is distutils still a thing?
Python has a confusing history of tools that can be used to package and describe projects: these include distutils in the Standard Library, distribute, distutils2, and setuptools (and maybe more). It ...
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Why can I not create a wheel in python?
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-...
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How to include package data with setuptools/distutils?
When using setuptools, I can not get the installer to pull in any package_data files. Everything I've read says that the following is the correct way to do it. Can someone please advise?
setup(
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How to write setup.py to include a Git repository as a dependency
I am trying to write setup.py for my package. My package needs to specify a dependency on another Git repository.
This is what I have so far:
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
setup(
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How can I make setuptools install a package that's not on PyPI?
I've just started working with setuptools and virtualenv. My package requires the latest python-gearman that is only available from GitHub. The python-gearman version that's on PyPI is an old one. The ...
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Do python projects need a MANIFEST.in, and what should be in it?
The "Python Distribute" guide tells me to include doc/txt files and .py files are excluded in MANIFEST.in file
The sourcedist documentation tells me only sdist uses MANIFEST.in and only ...
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Installing SetupTools on 64-bit Windows
I'm running Python 2.7 on Windows 7 64-bit, and when I run the installer for setuptools it tells me that Python 2.7 is not installed. The specific error message is:
`Python Version 2.7 required ...
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Post-install script with Python setuptools
Is it possible to specify a post-install Python script file as part of the setuptools setup.py file so that a user can run the command:
python setup.py install
on a local project file archive, or
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Why is pip installing an old version of my package?
I've just uploaded a new version of my package to PyPi (1.2.1.0-r4): I can download the egg file and install it with easy_install, and the version checks out correctly. But when I try to install using ...
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pip install . creates only the dist-info not the package
I am trying to make a python package which I want to install using pip install . locally. The package name is listed in pip freeze but import <package> results in an error No module named <...
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When to use pip requirements file versus install_requires in setup.py?
I'm using pip with virtualenv to package and install some Python libraries.
I'd imagine what I'm doing is a pretty common scenario. I'm the maintainer on several libraries for which I can specify ...
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setuptools: package data folder location
I use setuptools to distribute my python package. Now I need to distribute additional datafiles.
From what I've gathered fromt the setuptools documentation, I need to have my data files inside the ...
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Python setuptools: How can I list a private repository under install_requires?
I am creating a setup.py file for a project which depends on private GitHub repositories. The relevant parts of the file look like this:
from setuptools import setup
setup(name='my_project',
...,...
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Error while downloading the requirements using pip install (setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.)
version pip 21.2.4
python 3.6
The command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
The content of my requirements.txt:
mongoengine==0.19.1
numpy==1.16.2
pylint
pandas==1.1.5
fawkes
The command is failing ...
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How to install a package using pip in editable mode with pyproject.toml?
When a project is specified only via pyproject.toml (i.e. no setup.{py,cfg} files), how can it be installed in editable mode via pip (i.e. python -m pip install -e .)?
I tried both setuptools and ...
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How do I install an old version of Django on virtualenv?
I want to install some specific version of a package (in this case Django) inside the virtual environment. I can't figure it out.
I'm on Windows XP, and I created the virtual environment successfully, ...
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How include static files to setuptools - python package
I want to include the ./static/data.txt to setuptools, here is my code:
# setup.py
import os,glob
from setuptools import setup,find_packages
setup(
name = "PotatoProject",
version = "0.1.1",
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Removing python module installed in develop mode
I was trying the python packaging using setuptools and to test I installed the module in develop mode.
i.e
python setup.py develop
This has added my modules directory to sys.path. Now I want to ...
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What is the difference between `extras_require()` and `install_requires()` in setup.py?
I am trying to understand the difference between extras_require() and install_requires() in setup.py but haven't been able to get it. Both are used for installing Python dependencies, but what's the ...
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What's the difference between setup.py and setup.cfg in python projects
Need to know what's the difference between setup.py and setup.cfg. Both are used prominently in openstack projects
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What is the official "preferred" way to install pip and virtualenv systemwide?
Is it this, which people seem to recommend most often:
$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install virtualenv
Or this, which I got from http://www.pip-...
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Setuptools "development" Requirements
TL;DR: Is there a way to hook setuptool's 'develop' to install a set of development requirements when running python setup.py develop?
I'm building my first python package using setuptools. I'm ...
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Python packages and egg-info directories
Can someone explain how egg-info directories are tied to their respective modules? For example, I have the following:
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/quodlibet/
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-...
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What is the correct way to share package version with setup.py and the package?
With distutils, setuptools, etc. a package version is specified in setup.py:
# file: setup.py
...
setup(
name='foobar',
version='1.0.0',
# other attributes
)
I would like to be able to access the ...
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How do I set up Setuptools for Python 2.6 on Windows?
Is there any way to install Setuptools for Python 2.6 in Windows without having an exe installer?
There isn't one built at the moment, and the maintainer of Setuptools has stated that it will ...
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Latest 'pip' fails with "requires setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info"
Using the recent (1.5) version of pip, I get an error when attempting to update several packages. For example, sudo pip install -U pytz results in failure with:
Wheel installs require setuptools >=...
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pip ignores dependency_links in setup.py
I have dependency_links in my setup.py:
...
dependency_links = ['http://github.com/robot-republic/python-s3/tarball/master.tar.gz#egg=python-s3'],
...
But it doesn't work. However install_requires ...
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Upgrading setuptools on OSX El Capitan
I'm trying to upgrade setuptools. Well actually I'm trying to upgrade ansible but it's trying to upgrade setuptools and failing. Trying to do it myself also fails. Even trying to uninstall it fails
$ ...
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How to write a minimally working pyproject.toml file that can install packages?
Pip supports the pyproject.toml file but so far all practical usage of the new schema requires a 3rd party tool that auto-generates these files (e.g., poetry and pip). Unlike setup.py which is already ...
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Enforcing python version in setup.py
Currently, we are setting\installing up some packages on system by mentioning their version and dependencies in setup.py under install_requires attribute. Our system requires Python 2.7. Sometimes, ...
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How may I override the compiler (GCC) flags that setup.py uses by default?
I understand that setup.py uses the same CFLAGS that were used to build Python. I have a single C extension of ours that is segfaulting. I need to build it without -O2 because -O2 is optimizing out ...
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Symbol not found: __PyCodecInfo_GetIncrementalDecoder
Since updating from Homebrew Python 2.7.11 (from 2.7.10) I'm suddenly unable to test register my package on PyPi from the PyCharm IDE console.
Running (as an "External Tool")
python -B setup.py ...
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How to reference a requirements.txt in the pyproject.toml of a setuptools project?
I'm trying to migrate a setuptools-based project from the legacy setup.py towards modern pyproject.toml configuration.
At the same time I want to keep well established workflows based on pip-compile, ...
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What is the advantage of setting zip_safe to True when packaging a Python project?
The setuptools documentation only states:
For maximum performance, Python packages are best installed as zip files. Not all packages, however, are capable of running in compressed form, because ...
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stopping setup.py from installing as egg
How do I stop setup.py from installing a package as an egg? Or even better, how do I easy_install from installing a package as an egg?
sudo python setup.py install
The reason being that PyDev is ...
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Managing resources in a Python project
I have a Python project in which I am using many non-code files. Currently these are all images, but I might use other kinds of files in the future. What would be a good scheme for storing and ...
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Why does "python setup.py sdist" create unwanted "PROJECT-egg.info" in project root directory?
When I run
python setup.py sdist
it creates an sdist in my ./dist directory. This includes a "PROJECT-egg.info" file in the zip inside my "dist" folder, which I don't use, but it doesn't hurt me, ...
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How to specify version ranges in install_requires (setuptools, distribute)
I want to make a package to depend the particular version range e.g. >= 0.5.0, < 0.7.0. Is it possible in install_requires option, and if so how should it be?
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