I came across this nifty little piece of software: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools to install Python packages on Windows. However, this only supports till Python 2.7. Is there an equivalent tool for Python 3? Or is Python 3 still in beta?
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https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
This is supposed to be the new setuptools.
Edit:
Well most python packages come with setup.py
which make use of distutils commands:
python setup.py install
This installs the packages to the python version used to run this command.
Also pip is usefull for installation: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip
so First you install the distribute.
- Download the source from the link i provided
- Unpack
- Run setup.py as shown above, with the python you wish to install it to. If you only have one python. plain
python setup.py install
will do. - Then download pip from the link
- unpack
- run setup
Now you can install python packages found in pypi, with command :
pip install packagename
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I don't understand how to use it to install Python 3 packages on Windows. Can you help me?– pratnalaMar 6, 2013 at 9:41
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I have Python 2 and 3. So I should run setup.py from the Python 3 folder correct?– pratnalaMar 6, 2013 at 14:39
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Thank you so much!!!! I wish I could upvote you more than once! A lot of work was saved for me– pratnalaMar 6, 2013 at 14:51