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Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity

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Subject Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity
Date Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:05:49 +0200
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not entirely on-topic here, but is distutils still being in active use "in
the wild" ?

-Sivan

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 8 February 2016 at 00:38,  <dimva13@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Running python setup.py develop doesn't work, it gives me this error:
> error: invalid command 'develop'
>
> This is presumably because your setup.py script uses distutils rather
> than setuptools: distutils doesn't have the develop command.
>
> > Running pip install -e . does work.
>
> That's because pip "injects setuptools" so that when you import
> distutils in your setup.py your actually importing a monkey-patched
> setuptools. You may as well import setuptools in your setup.py but
> either way the recommended invocation is "pip install -e .".
>
> --
> Oscar
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>



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Sivan Greenberg
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  Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-07 13:52 +1100
  Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-02-07 06:34 +0000
    Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity dimva13@gmail.com - 2016-02-07 06:13 -0800
      Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-02-07 16:09 +0000
        Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity dimva13@gmail.com - 2016-02-07 16:38 -0800
          Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 00:31 +0000
          Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Sivan Greenberg <sivan@vitakka.co> - 2016-02-10 21:05 +0200
          Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-02-10 21:16 +0000
      Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Sivan Greenberg <sivan@vitakka.co> - 2016-02-07 18:15 +0200
  Re: Python's import situation has driven me to the brink of imsanity Sivan Greenberg <sivan@vitakka.co> - 2016-02-07 13:43 +0200

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