On Apr 15, 7:41 pm, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 7stud wrote: > > For as hard as you push pyparsing on this forum, I would think you > > would make it easier to download and install your module. In my > > opinion, the wiki should provide detailed installation instructions > > for all supported os's, and the sourceforge downloading process is too > > complicated. > > FWIW, here's what works for me:: > > * Go tohttp://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ > * Click the link at the top that says "Download from SourceForge" > * Click the big green "Download Python parsing module" button > * Click the big green "Download" button next to "pyparsing-1.4.6" > * Click pyparsing-1.4.6.tar.gz > * Extract the dowloaded .tar.gz > * Use the standard python installation idiom "python setup.py install" > > If you're not familiar with the standard Python installation idiom, take > a few minutes to read: > > "Installing Python Modules"http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html > > In particular it starts with "The new standard: Distutils", which tells > you to try:: > > python setup.py install > > HTH, > > STeVe
Thanks! I thought I would write down what I did in case someone else looks this up: 1) Even though the download at sourceforge said the file name was: pyparsing-1.4.6.tar.gz it was downloaded to my Desktop as: pyparsing-1.4.6.tar Did os x 10.4.7 automatically unzip it for me? .gz means the file was compressed with gzip, but I didn't have to do any unzipping. 2) Apparently, a .tar file is not a compressed file--it just organizes a bunch of files into one big file or "archive". You still need to do something to extract all the files from the archive. Here is the command: $ tar -xvf /Users/me/Desktop/pyparsing-1.4.6.tar That command extracts the contents into the current directory(i.e. the directory the prompt is pointing to), which can overwrite files with the same names. So I created a directory called tar_temp: /Users/me/tar_temp and used the cd command to change the prompt to that directory. (Note: the ~ prompt is shorthand for /Users/YourHomeDirName) 3) To run: python setup.py install, you need to get to the top level directory of the download. So, I cd'ed to the directory: ~/tar_temp/pyparsing-1.4.6 and then ran the setup command: ~/tar_temp/pyparsing-1.4.6$ python setup.py install I tested the setup by running the hello world program described in the document: ~/tar_temp/pyparsing-1.4.6/HowToUsePyparsing.html and it worked. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
