Chaz Ginger wrote: > Here is a problem I am trying to solve; I am sure there must be an easy > way to do it and I just don't know how. > > I have a rather large application that I am writing. To make it easy for > the user to run I have them run a startup.py script. This script will > try to load each of the third party libraries the application will need. > If it is present, great. If it isn't, I would like to automatically > install it. This is the heart of my problem: is there a Python > equivalent to PERL's CPAN? >
Check out setuptools: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
