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Stanislav Bashkyrtsev
Stanislav Bashkyrtsev

Reputation: 15308

setup.py requires MySQL-python

I'm writing a setup.py script and want to specify a dependency onto MySQL package:

requires=['requests', 'mock', 'GitPython', 'MySQL-python']

But MySQL-python looks to be illegal for setup tool because it thinks that after - there should be a version and it throws this error:

ValueError: expected parenthesized list: '-python'

What can I do here?

Environment: Python 2.7.3; precise 32

Upvotes: 5

Views: 465

Answers (2)

merwok
merwok

Reputation: 6907

On this point you should not follow the distutils documentation. requires comes from a PEP defining metadata for distributions, but it does not actually work with any tool, including distutils. For now, you need to choose a packaging tool that’s not in the standard library and use its conventions for defining dependencies and build-time dependencies. pip has requirements files; distribute has requires_dist and setup_requires; buildout has something else, etc.

Upvotes: 0

cwgem
cwgem

Reputation: 2799

From the distutils documentation:

To specify that any version of a module or package is required, the string should consist entirely of the module or package name. Examples include 'mymodule' and 'xml.parsers.expat'.

With that in mind you should just be able to check off MySQL-python's _mysql module:

requires=['requests', 'mock', 'GitPython', '_mysql']

Upvotes: 1

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