En Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:36:34 -0200, Nasser Abbasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I am running on windowz. I have downloaded and installed 2.5.1 Python. > > my question is on installing additional packages. > > What is the easiest way to do that? I read about python 'eggs' (like jar > files for Java), and easyInstall script, and such. Once you have setuptools installed, it's as easy as executing: easy_install packagename The alternative is to find and download the package yourself, unzip in a temporary directory, and execute: setup.py install For most packages that's all that is required. > Is there some automated way to install Python packages? a > manual/document I > could read that describes step by step how to do that? Browsing the > documentation, there does not seem to be something specific there (other > than saying download this tar file and install it). > > I like how one can install additional packages in 'R' . In 'R' one can do > all that from the user interface for R by a pull-down menu, then one > selects > a mirror site, then one can see all the packages available, then select > the > package to download, and the rest is done automatically. (The package is > downloaded, installed, etc...) That's mainly what easy_install does, plus dependency checking. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
