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David
David

Reputation: 4465

django problem - install the xxx package by putting it on your python path?

I'm trying to deploy Everyblock specifically its ebblog package on my OSX. I already have both Python and Django installed, unfortunately I am fairly new to both Python and Django.

The readme says something like this:

  1. Install the ebblog package by putting it on your Python path.

Here is the complete readme if you need further context: https://github.com/brosner/everyblock_code/blob/master/ebblog/README.TXT

I'm stuck at #1 - when oyu look at the ebblog its a whole django new application directory/file structure, so do I like copy this entier folder to my python's .../lib folder or what?

I can't imagine copying the entire ebblog folder if that is what it meant by the instruction.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 963

Answers (2)

XORcist
XORcist

Reputation: 4367

Usually, installing to the python path means making a python package or module importable, so that when you do

import someapp

you can then use someapp in your code. In order to do that you can

  1. put the package's path into sys.path (import sys;sys.path.append("path/to/package"))
  2. put the path into a file someapp.pth and place someapp.pth inside your dist-packages directory
  3. put the path into the PYTHONPATH environment variable

plus some others, see The Module Search Path.

Upvotes: 2

Benjamin Wohlwend
Benjamin Wohlwend

Reputation: 31828

Have a look at virtualenv. It helps to keep dependencies of different projects separate. Here's a good tutorial.

Upvotes: 0

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