Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'differently': 0.07; 'pil': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'mess': 0.09; 'received:internal': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; "wouldn't": 0.11; 'suggest': 0.11; 'packages.': 0.15; '__init__.py': 0.16; 'possibly,': 0.16; 'received:10.202': 0.16; 'received:10.202.2': 0.16; 'received:66.111': 0.16; 'received:66.111.4': 0.16; 'received:mail.srv.osa': 0.16; 'received:messagingengine.com': 0.16; 'received:nyi.mail.srv.osa': 0.16; 'received:osa': 0.16; 'received:srv.osa': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'instance,': 0.17; 'creates': 0.18; '31,': 0.22; 'setup.': 0.22; 'cheers,': 0.23; 'cc:2**0': 0.23; 'installed': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'testing': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.25; 'am,': 0.27; 'installing': 0.27; 'subject:/': 0.28; 'environment': 0.29; '(maybe': 0.29; 'received:192.168.1.3': 0.29; 'install': 0.29; '-----': 0.32; 'suggestion': 0.32; 'hi,': 0.33; 'really': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'why': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'files': 0.38; 'received:10': 0.38; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'easy': 0.60; 'header:Message-Id:1': 0.62; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'jul': 0.65; '*easy': 0.84; 'isolated': 0.84; 'pain': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; s=smtpout; bh=o93W9VL7iSMlm8TU9vZ4h+vUdnY=; b=WA wXpab70NmEVtsAJt9vQi0rPlafWd1JtQWrI+zYlAuO+EGuhbkouzOATi1yn8OzQR GAVAze2OnVWQj4v92316Lunghtg7YMb4fU7lgVhrAcNxGVX1kFwqGZtrITqMAmDx cCBMA5u1C2LXgQmamxaAh5aandACfwECwZ6svLSIc= X-Sasl-enc: hR1T5joIVEuFLnVkOsW6/bTsIrWKY1QZMz+dMEdj5wvq 1343743226 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.0 \(1485\)) Subject: Re: docx/lxml From: Pedro Kroger In-Reply-To: <40113c57-5978-45a2-b695-8917706fd268@googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:00:25 -0300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <40113c57-5978-45a2-b695-8917706fd268@googlegroups.com> To: cyrille.leroux@gmail.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1485) Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1343743230 news.xs4all.nl 6897 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59505 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26312 On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:36 AM, cyrille.leroux@gmail.com wrote: > - Do you know any *easy to use*, *easy to deploy* package to generate = ".doc like" documents ? > - Do you have any suggestion to do it differently (maybe with native = packages ?) >=20 > - As a python newby, I don't understand why you have to go through the = pain of installing packages since they should be able to work with just = the __init__.py files ?=20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Cyrille Hi, May I suggest you use pip and, possibly, virtualenv? pip makes it easy to install Python packages while virtualenv creates an = isolated Python environment For instance, I just installed docx and its dependencies with: pip install docx lxml datutils PIL And I did that inside a testing virtualenv, so I wouldn't mess up my = Python setup. pip and virtualenv make it really easy and painless to install Python = packages. Cheers, Pedro ----- http://pedrokroger.net http://musicforgeeksandnerds.com