Installing dependencies for Python program

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I have created a Python-based GUI application which has certain dependencies such as the "request" and "psycopg2" modules among others.

I want to create a setup script that will install all such dependencies when run, so that a user can run the GUI application without having any missing package errors.

I did try looking up the distutils module, but am not able to fully understand its usage.

SingleNegationElimination · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-29 16:39:11Z

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if you did

$ pip install SomeLib

to satisfy a requirement for developing your own library, you should have a setup script something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from distutils.core import setup
setup(
    # ...
    install_requires=['SomeLib']
)

answered Jun 29, 2011 at 16:39

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user2665694 · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-29 16:35:54Z

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You specify all dependent packages in the 'install_requires' option within your setup.py - that's it.

If this is not sufficient or good enough (for whatever reason): look into zc.buildout giving your more options installing and configuring external dependencies.

answered Jun 29, 2011 at 16:35

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ryry1985 · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-24 13:58:00Z

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Check out the impstall package, a project I created to meet these same needs. It's as simple as:

import impstall
impstall.now('csv')
impstall.now('wx', pipName='wxPython')

edited Jul 24, 2017 at 13:58

answered Jul 23, 2017 at 20:01

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Martijn Pieters Over a year ago

Please do disclose your association with this package; this is your own project. See How to offer personal open-source libraries?

ryry1985 Over a year ago

Sorry, I forgot to add that I started it.

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