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> the Python module install pain for a one-off task. "pip install requests" ?

• RegEx 14y ago
  Unfortunately, it seems the official documentation on installing Python modules[0] makes absolutely no mention of pip or even easy_install. Seems like something that should be there, right? [0]: http://docs.python.org/install/ http://docs.python.org/install/
  • zokier 14y ago
    I guess that is because pip is not part of the official Python. Maybe best described as a front-end to distutils (which is what your link documents and is part of official Python). edit: Python docs front-page[1] also notes following: A new documentation project, which will be merged into the Python documentation soon, covers creating, installing and distributing Python packages: http://guide.python-distribute.org/ http://guide.python-distribute.org/ [1] http://www.python.org/doc/ http://www.python.org/doc/ So I guess that they have acknowledged that the docs are suboptimal currently in this part.
  • anonymoushn 14y ago
    I'm glad that there's no mention of easy_install. I have no idea why someone would want to use a package manager that can't uninstall things.
    • RegEx 14y ago
      Yeah, good point. That puzzled me as well before I learned of pip.