--- "Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:22 PM 11/13/2005 -0800, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > >My immediate goal is to download a package in a "sandbox" directory, > >unpack it and examine its files and directories. > > > >I found a way to download a package using setuptools by looking it > up > >on PyPI by its "short" name (e.g. "funkload"). I do this in my code: > > > >from setuptools.package_index import PackageIndex > >pkgindex = PackageIndex() > >output = pkgindex.download(name, sandbox) > > > >This works just fine, but PackageIndex downloads the first package > it > >finds -- which in many cases is an egg file. The problem with egg > >packages is that they don't contain the source distribution, so my > >Cheesecake module doesn't find docs, tests, special files, etc. > inside > >an egg. > > > >Is there a way I can tell setuptools what type of package I want it > to > >download (e.g. "tar.gz" or "zip")? I guess I could find the answer > to > >this question myself by poring some more over the setuptools source > >code, but if you know the answer already, I'd appreciate it! > > Use the 'fetch()' method instead of 'download()'. You will need a > Requirement object, e.g.: > > from pkg_resources import Requirement > output = pkgindex.fetch(Requirement.parse(name), sandbox, > force_scan=True, source=True) > > 'force_scan' tells the index to check PyPI even if there's a > locally-availablepackage of the given name. 'source' tells it to > ignore > binary packages such as .egg and .exe. >
Thanks a lot for the prompt answer, your solution worked beautifully. Grig _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
