Hi Mark On 1 January 2012 03:13, Mark Lybrand <mlybr...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... you'll see the newly installed script. Additionally you can then >> >> trivially also install "pip", by executing: >> >> easy_install pip >> > > Does this triviality depend on where the pip files are that I wish to "easy > install"? I would assume that the answer is "yes". In which case, if those > pip files are in my Download folder, will the easy install put them in the > right place or reference them from the Download folder?
No -- easy_install does everything for you. The command: easy_install pip both downloads and installs the package named "pip" for you. (It so happens that "pip" is another package management tool, but the point is that you can install any Python package this way, simply by specifying the package name that you want to install.) That's part of the beauty of the inbuilt package management support in Python. You merely have to specify the package you'd like to install, and distribute (via the command "easy_install") or pip (via the command "pip") will (in general) go and locate the correct version of a python package and install it for you. Packages with C modules are however much more problematic since you need a C compiler to install them, and so in general it's far easier for such packages to find a pre-packages Windows installer package witht he C modules already compiled for you. (If you're sufficiently familiar with C compilers on Windows and projects like MinGW or tools like Visual Studio on Windows, as well as how Windows works generally, then it's possible to set your system up to have pip or distribute install your C based Python modules as well.) Hope that clarifies things, Walter _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
