Richard Shea wrote: > Hi - This is probably quite a stupid question but I've never > understood what setup.py does. I've got a situation at the moment > where I would like to use a script (which someone else has written and > made available) to do CGI on a shared webserver to which I do not have > shell access. > > The install instructions say "run python setup.py" but as far as I'm > aware I cannot do that.
http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/ > There is only one script involved (except for the setup.py !) and so < I'm probably just going to copy it into my cgi-bin and give it a go > but I'd like to know for future reference just how bad could it be if > I did this ? Are there circumstances where you must use setup.py to > have any hope of the code working ? depends on the package, of course. e.g. a package that includes C extensions won't work if you don't compile the C extensions... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list