Hello, I'm not an expert, but if you use setuptools for your application, then a 'install_requires' argument would do the job. For more information, please take a look at: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
Best regards, Javier 2009/5/12 Jason <jason.hee...@gmail.com>: > I'm writing a small GUI (Python 2.5/6) using wxPython and pySerial. > Since these are both 3rd party modules, if a user doesn't have them > installed and tries to run the GUI from a file browser, the app will > fail silently. I'm hoping to avoid that. > > Sure, I'll have a readme file, but I was wondering if there is an even > more direct way. I was going to roll my own (eg. very simple Tkinter > fallback error dialog if wxPython import fails, wxPython error dialog > if anything else is missing); but I was wondering if such a system > already exists out there. > > — Jason > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list