Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-29 Thread David Lyon
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:15:23 -0700, John Nagle wrote: >> Brock wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your >>> eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many >>> tutorials on the web referring to the use of external

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-29 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:15:23 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > Brock wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your >> eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many >> tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules.

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:59:54 -0300, Mike Driscoll escribió: On Apr 28, 12:15 pm, John Nagle wrote: Brock wrote: > I see many > tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules. > However, when I locate them, they often come as a zipped folder with a > number of files.  How do I

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 28, 12:15 pm, John Nagle wrote: > Brock wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your > > eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many > > tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules. > > > Howeve

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:15 PM, John Nagle wrote: > Brock wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your >> eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many >> tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules.

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread John Nagle
Brock wrote: Hi Everyone, I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules. However, when I locate them, they often come as a zipped folder with

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread tuxagb
On 28 Apr, 17:02, Brock wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your > eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many > tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules. > > However, when I locate them, they often

Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread Brock
Hi Everyone, I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules. However, when I locate them, they often come as a zipped folder with a number of fi

Re: python 3.x third party modules

2008-09-24 Thread Christian Heimes
Almar Klein wrote: Can anyone say something about that? Will it take a month, a year? A year or more is realistic. A couple of years is even more realistic. Large projects are moving slowly and Python 3.0 introduces some heavy changes. The separation of text (unicode str) and data (bytes) tak

Re: python 3.x third party modules

2008-09-24 Thread Almar Klein
Hi, I would like to look at third party modules which are python 3.0 ready. > I think that until the release version of python 3.0 is out, no one will release something. Python 3k is due in October this year, so only a few weeks from now. I would also like to know when we can expect the ma

python 3.x third party modules

2008-09-23 Thread km
Hi all, I would like to look at third party modules which are python 3.0 ready. could some one point me to such a resource ? If its not available, it would be useful to host a page regarding this on python.org ? any comments ? KM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Tina I
Kevin Walzer wrote: > Tina I wrote: >> Kevin Walzer wrote: > > >> And maybe the smartest thing to do would be to dump PyQt and just go >> for tkinter, however ugly it is :/ > > Tkinter doesn't have to be ugly. > > I sell a proprietary Tkinter app commercially on OS X: > > http://www.codebykev

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
Tina I wrote: > Kevin Walzer wrote: > And maybe the smartest thing to do would be to dump PyQt and just go for > tkinter, however ugly it is :/ Tkinter doesn't have to be ugly. I sell a proprietary Tkinter app commercially on OS X: http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity-running.png It tak

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Kevin Walzer a écrit : > > Note that if you go that way, neither Windows nor MacOS X are actually > able to cleanly manage such dependencies (which is why the usual > solution on these platforms - or at least on Windows - is to just bundle > everything in a single b

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Tina I
David Boddie wrote: > On May 16, 7:44 am, Tina I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A binary would be ideal. I'll look into the freeze modules and >> Pyinstaller. Even if they don't handle huge things like Qt it would be a >> step in the right direction if it handles smaller third part modules. >> An

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread David Boddie
On May 16, 7:44 am, Tina I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A binary would be ideal. I'll look into the freeze modules and > Pyinstaller. Even if they don't handle huge things like Qt it would be a > step in the right direction if it handles smaller third part modules. > And maybe the smartest thing t

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Kevin Walzer a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>> What platform are you doing this on? On the Linux platform, >>> "dependency hell" of this sort is pretty much unavoidable, >> >> Yes it is. EasyInstall works just fine. > > You can install a beast like PyQt with easy_install? Meaning, tha

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Tina I
Kevin Walzer wrote: > > What platform are you doing this on? On the Linux platform, "dependency > hell" of this sort is pretty much unavoidable, because there are so many > different packaging systems (apt, rpm, and so on): it's standard to let > the package manager handle these dependencies. A

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Kevin Walzer
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> What platform are you doing this on? On the Linux platform, >> "dependency hell" of this sort is pretty much unavoidable, > > Yes it is. EasyInstall works just fine. You can install a beast like PyQt with easy_install? Meaning, that it will download and build/inst

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Kevin Walzer a écrit : > Tina I wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third >> party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and >> just having the setup script check for the exist

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Kevin Walzer
Tina I wrote: > Hi list, > > Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third > party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and > just having the setup script check for the existence of the required > modules. If they're not fo

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Tina I a écrit : > Hi list, > > Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third > party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and > just having the setup script check for the existence of the required > modules. If they're n

Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Tina I
Hi list, Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and just having the setup script check for the existence of the required modules. If they're not found I have it exit with a message that it

Re: Bundling an application with third-party modules

2006-06-14 Thread Serge Orlov
Ben Finney wrote: > "Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ben Finney wrote: > > > That's a large part of my question. How can I lay out these > > > modules sensibly during installation so they'll be easily > > > available to, but specific to, my application? > > > > Put them in a director

Re: Bundling an application with third-party modules

2006-06-14 Thread Ben Finney
"Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > That's a large part of my question. How can I lay out these > > modules sensibly during installation so they'll be easily > > available to, but specific to, my application? > > Put them in a directory "lib" next to the main module

Re: Bundling an application with third-party modules

2006-06-14 Thread Serge Orlov
Ben Finney wrote: > > 2. An Installshield-type installer can place files (essentially) > > wherever you want them > > That's a large part of my question. How can I lay out these modules > sensibly during installation so they'll be easily available to, but > specific to, my application? Put them in

Re: Bundling an application with third-party modules

2006-06-14 Thread Ben Finney
"utabintarbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. py2exe/csFreeze-type thing. This would even relieve the customer > of installing python Not really what I need. I only want to have installation control over *some* of the modules, and leave Python and other dependencies up to the administrator to ma

Re: Bundling an application with third-party modules

2006-06-14 Thread Scott David Daniels
utabintarbo wrote: > A couple of alternatives: > 1. py2exe/csFreeze-type thing. This would even relieve the customer of > installing python > 2. An Installshield-type installer can place files (essentially) > wherever you want them > > HTH > Also, remember to credit those third-party packages; th

Re: Bundling an application with third-party modules

2006-06-14 Thread utabintarbo
A couple of alternatives: 1. py2exe/csFreeze-type thing. This would even relieve the customer of installing python 2. An Installshield-type installer can place files (essentially) wherever you want them HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Bundling an application with third-party modules

2006-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, I'm improving an existing application that's partly written using Python and the standard library. Many of the improvements I want to make can be done by using third-party free software. The immediate customer for this application is happy to install Python on their machine, but I'd li

Re: Right place for third party modules (here: fixedpoint)

2005-01-25 Thread Sibylle Koczian
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: ah, forget what I said. you need to put the fixedpoint.py *file* under site-packages, not the entire directory. as that "python -v -v" would have told you: Thank you (and Steve Holden), that did it. more out ... # trying C:\python24\lib\site-packages\fixedpoint.pyd # tryi

Re: Right place for third party modules (here: fixedpoint)

2005-01-24 Thread Fredrik Lundh
>> I suppose fixedpoint is no package as described in the tutorial and so >> "site-packages" might not >> be the right place for it. > > site-packages sure works on my windows xp / python 2.4 configuration. ah, forget what I said. you need to put the fixedpoint.py *file* under site-packages, n

Re: Right place for third party modules (here: fixedpoint)

2005-01-24 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Sibylle Koczian wrote: > for the first time since getting Python I can't get a third party module to > work. > > I got fixedpoint.0.1.2.tar.gz from SourceForge for use with KinterbasDB. > After unpacking I had a > directory called "fixedpoint" which I put under my site-packages directory. > Th

Re: Right place for third party modules (here: fixedpoint)

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Holden
Sibylle Koczian wrote: Hello, for the first time since getting Python I can't get a third party module to work. I got fixedpoint.0.1.2.tar.gz from SourceForge for use with KinterbasDB. After unpacking I had a directory called "fixedpoint" which I put under my site-packages directory. There are

Right place for third party modules (here: fixedpoint)

2005-01-24 Thread Sibylle Koczian
Hello, for the first time since getting Python I can't get a third party module to work. I got fixedpoint.0.1.2.tar.gz from SourceForge for use with KinterbasDB. After unpacking I had a directory called "fixedpoint" which I put under my site-packages directory. There are no installation instruc