A python egg is a “a single-file importable distribution format”. Which is typically a python package. You can import the package in the egg as long as you know it’s name and it’s in your path. You can execute a package using the “-m” option and the package name. However, python packages generally do not … Read more
If you are using Python3.5 on Ubuntu: rm ~/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/[Package name].egg-link where [Package name] is the package that causes issues.
For linux versions(ubuntu/linux mint), you can always type this in the command prompt: sudo apt-get install python-setuptools This will automatically install easy_install.
setup.py sdist creates a source distribution: it contains setup.py, the source files of your module/script (.py files or .c/.cpp for binary modules), your data files, etc. The result is an archive that can then be used to recompile everything on any platform. setup.py bdist (and bdist_*) creates a built distribution: it includes .pyc files, .so/.dll/.dylib … Read more
The .egg-info directories get only created if –single-version-externally-managed was used to install the egg. “Normally”, installing an egg would create a single directory (or zip file), containing both the code and the metadata. pkg_resources (which is the library that reads the metadata) has a function require which can be used to request a specific version … Read more
You will need to create a setup.py file for your package. Make sure you have the latest setuptools and pip installed. Then run the following: python setup.py bdist_wheel This will create a wheel file for your package. This assumes you don’t have C/C++ headers, DLLs, etc. If you do, then you’ll probably have a lot … Read more
You are reading the wrong documentation. You want this: https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#develop-deploy-the-project-source-in-development-mode Creating setup.py is covered in the distutils documentation in Python’s standard library documentation here. The main difference (for python eggs) is you import setup from setuptools, not distutils. Yep. That should be right. I don’t think so. pyc files can be version and platform dependent. … Read more
Yes, it is virtualenv along with virtualenvwrapper. update: you may install both at once with virtualenv burrito. Update: the correct answer is now probably pyenv. For scientific computing, the corresponding tool is anaconda.
How about just using the built-in types like this: config = { “mysql”: { “user”: “root”, “pass”: “secret”, “tables”: { “users”: “tb_users” } # etc } } You’d access the values as follows: config[“mysql”][“tables”][“users”] If you are willing to sacrifice the potential to compute expressions inside your config tree, you could use YAML and end … Read more