>>> import pip >>> pip.main(['install', 'boltons']) Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): boltons in ./anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages 0
This is easy, short, and uses existing syntax and an existing module. Yes, I know technically the API isn't promised; I wouldn't object to making that API official. But PLEASE, no new syntax for doing this! Btw. On failure: >>> pip.main(['install', 'nonesuch']) Collecting nonesuch Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement nonesuch (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for nonesuch 1 On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:46 PM, אלעזר <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:40 AM Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 19 September 2016 at 23:13, אלעזר <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Alternative syntax might be that of import decorators >> > >> > @from_pip("attrs") >> > import attr >> >> At which point you may as well just (insert disclaimer about "using >> pip's internal API isn't supported" here, and glossing over the fact >> that pip doesn't yet have an install function with this API) do >> >> import pip >> pip.install('attrs') >> import attr >> > > Please forgive me for my ignorance, but it doesn't work as written - > what's the actual method? > > Elazar > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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