On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:03 PM, ryguy7272 <ryanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, that's a damn good question. I thought, by defailt, everything was > downloaded to this folder: > 'C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages' > > In there, I have all kinds of things like: > 'setuptools-6.1.dist-info', 'pip-1.5.6.dist-info', etc. > All kinds of other things too. > > It seems there is always a copy, so I cut/paste the folders named > 'setuptools' & 'pip' (always taking off the versions and identifiers and the > like...). Then I cut/paste everything into this folder: > 'C:\Python27\Lib' > > Is that how it's done or not?
Most definitely not. That is not how you should go about installing things. You're packing everything into the standard library, certain to cause a mess. Just leave them in site-packages - they ought to be importable from there. If they're not, you most likely have one very simple configuration issue to fix, and then everything will just work. > Python is by far the most backwards type of technology that I can think of. > Using it is completely counter-productive. I can't take it serious. > You're blaming Python for your poor use of it. Python, as a technology, is not the cause of your issues. Get to know the language and its standard library first, then move on to learning about the entire ecosystem of PyPI packages; base your opinion of Python primarily on the language, not on what people do with it. Do you judge C on the basis of the IOCCC? No, you judge it on the basis of manual memory management and segfaults. (That said, I do like C... as a language for writing high level languages in. I try to avoid writing actual C code.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
