OS: Windows 7 Python: 3.6 I'm trying to create and installing a python wheel package. The building works fine but when i import the module into project after installing it, i get a "ModuleNotFoun...

Background: I have one source file which is responsible for security. In there are magic keys and specific algorithms. Is it possible to remove a this single source file from a python egg or wheel...

Is it possible to run Python egg files directly as you can run jar files with Java? For example, with Java you might dos something like: $ java -jar jar-file

Where can you force pip to install as "flat" and not as "egg". For me it seems random. Sometimes it gets installed as egg, sometime as flat. pip help install shows only an option --egg which forc...

I have a locally created .egg package that depends on boto==2.38.0. I used setuptools to create the build distribution. Everything works in my own local environment, as it fetches boto correctly fr...

I want to use matplotlib.pyplot. I can't because altoidnerd@LEPTON:~/ $ pip install matplotlib is failing on ubuntu 14 giving an egg_info error, and warning "cannot build package freetype" * T...

I have a custom Python egg I've written, which I cannot get the submodule (or nested module) to load externally. I've been able to load a root-level module just fine. Here's the obfuscated structu...

I'm not quite sure how to build a really simple one-file source module. Is there a sample module out there one the web somewhere which can be built as a python .egg? From the setuptools page it lo...

I am using setuptools to package a custom module for deployment, which should not include certain files in the data/ directory that were used for development. I have succesfully excluded the necess...

I'm trying to use cx_freeze on Windows 7 with a python2.7 distutils script, and it seems to get tripped up on 2 packages: rsa & pyasn1: error: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specifi...

I'm using setuptools for the first time, and trying to package my code so that others can easily develop it. I'm running everything in a virtual environment. Short question: How do I change the d...

I'm trying to use the pytools module within the virtualenv created by Nervana for their Neon deep learning package, but can't seem to either find pytools or pip it. When I enter my virtualenv, I se...

I am installing a package using dependency_links. It seems to install the package alright but breaks pip freeze functionality (which probably means there is a deeper install issue.) I want to be ab...

I used to run python setup.py install in a python project, it will just move the source to site-packages, but sometimes it will mv an egg file to site-packages? #!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: u...

I've followed this tutorial to make a package with namespace. Then I use pip install xxx.tar.gz to install and everything works like expect. The problem is that my environment has already a lots o...

I'm trying to setup ftw.mail for my postfix installation. Since I'm new to Linux and Python I don't really have a clue whether it is right, goes in the right direction or is rubbish. From the offi...

I have a few script that had their own copy of a some functions, so I extracted these functions to a module and had the scripts import the function. These script are to be copied over to a bunch of...

I want to install my project as a folder instead of .egg file. So I have used zip_safe= False inside setup function in setup.py file But when I am running this my project is getting installed as ....

I have questions about egg files in Python. I have much Python code organized by package and I'm trying to create egg files. I'm following instructions, but they are very common. According to tha...

I am working on Windows 7.I have created a python egg using distutils. Now I try to install this egg in a virtual environment using pip 1.0.2 using the following command: Then I create a virtual e...

I have very basic Python setup scripts that just call distutils.core.setup() with relevant parameters. The packages are for internal use only, so I do not need much more than that at the moment. W...

For example, installing IPython on Linux (where setuptools is not installed) I've got IPython installed in site-packages\IPython. Installing IPython on Windows (where IPython requires setuptools),...

I’ve installed a couple of Python modules using easy_install. How do I uninstall them? I couldn’t see an uninstall option listed in easy_install --help.

I know I can install with $ pip install -e git+https://git.repo/some_pkg#egg=SomePackage but -- when I'm trying to use somebody else's package -- how do I determine what the name of the egg is?...

I am running: Ubuntu 13.04 Python 2.7.4 I am trying this very simple tutorial on making a python egg, but am having difficulties when I actually try to run the command to make the egg. <me&...