If an enduser wishes to install your foo module, all they have to do is download foo1. If you also want to delete configuration andor data files of python. This document describes the python distribution utilities distutils from the module developers point of view, describing how to use the distutils to make python modules and extensions easily available to a wider audience with very little overhead for buildreleaseinstall mechanics. A list of python modules that distutils will manipulate. You can vote up the examples you like or vote down the ones you dont like. Pythondistutilsextra download deb, eopkg, rpm, txz, xz.
The distutils package provides support for building and installing additional modules into a python installation. For most unix systems, you must download and compile the source code. I have recently used distutils for the first time and thought i would share what i have learned. Now, its better described as the packaging interoperability sig, where issues that cut across different parts of the python packaging ecosystem get discussed and resolved. This mailing list was originally created to discuss the design and implementation of the distutils standard library module for python. Installing python modules this is for endusers, system administrators, and python programmers who need to install thirdparty modules to their existing python installation. Anyone can join, and there are lots of tutorials and info about creating packages, of all types, which include the above python packaging guide. After installing the compiler tools, you should ensure that your version of setuptools is uptodate for python 3.
Python package index tutorial by jeremy hylton covers the use of the. Design proposal python distutils sig prerequisites. The goal of distutils is to make building, packaging, distributing, and installing python modules, extensions, and applications painless and standardized. A list of standalone script files to be built and installed. Building and distributing packages with setuptools setuptools. All this is based on my own hacking and struggling to get things to work.
This package uses the distutils python standard library package and follows its conventions of packaging source distributions. Build egg, source, and window installer distributables. Bug reports and especially tested patches may be submitted directly to the bug tracker to report a security vulnerability, please use the. Distutils is a mechanism to distribute python packages and extensions. The same source code archive can also be used to build. The details distutils needs to do that installation are contained in setup. How to deal with the pain of unable to find vcvarsall. At its heart, cython is a superset of the python language, which allows you to add typing information and class attributes that can then be translated to c code and to cextensions for python. This tutorial will focus on the bare minimum basics you need to get setuptools running so you can. The distutils install command is designed to make installing module. It provides the setup which is called from the setup script. This document covers using the distutils to distribute your python modules, concentrating on the role of developerdistributor. Greg wards installing python modules is a good introduction to the end user of distutils.
Typically contained in a single dynamically loadable precompiled file, e. It focusses on using the distutils, but also covers older ways of installing python modules and extensions. Thus, users on the most popular platforms will be able to install most popular python module distributions in the most natural way for their platform, without having. Distributing python modules legacy version python 2. This works even if you have multiple versions of python around. To remove the python distutils extra package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from debian sid. As a popular open source development project, python has an active supporting community of contributors and users that also make their software available for other python. Python packaging user guide python packaging user guide. In the simplest case, youll have two files to worry about.
Uninstall python distutils extra and its dependent packages. Historically, most, but not all, python releases have also been gplcompatible. A list of python packages that distutils will manipulate. Distutils module was included in standard distribution in python 1. However, if you have a distutils more recent than your python, you might want to install it. This module is responsible for parsing all commandline. The licenses page details gplcompatibility and terms and conditions. How to install python3distutilsextra on debian unstable. Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the python distutils that allow. How to install pythondistutilsextra on debian unstable.
There are also thirdparty tools built on the top of distutils, that are using the distutils mailing list as their home. This is the official package maintaining project at ubuntu. It is not backward compatible with distutils and does not depend on it. The package i work on performs runtime code generation in cython and compiles via the cython pyxinstall command. You can compile and link your python extensions yourself, but distutil is the preffered way it will make all the necessary calls to the different compilers, call swig if necessary and your extensions will be easier to. The new modules may be either 100%pure python, or may be extension modules written in c, or may be collections of python packages which include modules coded in both python and c. I can specify the compiler used by this function by generating a distutils. To remove the python3 distutils extra package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from debian sid. Distutils is designed to execute highlevel commands to build, install, and package python modules. To remove just python3 distutils extra package itself from debian unstable sid execute on terminal. Automatic defaults are provided for the debian package, but many aspects of the resulting package can be customized via a configuration file. I can build with the intel compilers using the numpy distutils, but the intel compilers are not recognized by python distutils.
See the installation instructions in the python packaging users guide for instructions on installing, upgrading, and uninstalling setuptools questions and comments should be directed to the distutils sig mailing list. See the documentation on installing python modules for details or to customize the install process download the sources, unpack, and change into the source directory. They will also be written into the eggs metadata for use during install by tools that. I am sure there will be alternative ways to do things and that i will make mistakes. This package contains the distutils module from the python standard library. If you download a current python documentation set, you get a version. Although pythons extensive standard library covers many programming needs, there. The distutils own setup script, shown here, is used to install the package into. It provides more features and implements new packaging standards.