setup.py

I would like to import bunch of libraries and catch the exception. If I have only 1 try catch block I get 1 exception (the first one). Is there a pattern to iterate over all of the libs and have a separate exception for each individual missing lib? #!/usr/bin/env python try: import sys except: print sys.exc_info() try: import numpy as np except: print sys.exc_info() try: import scipy as sp except: print sys.exc_info() try: import os as os except: print sys.exc_info() try: from operator import itemgetter except: print sys.exc_info() try: import socket except: print sys.exc_info() try: import

I've got a Python package with its setup.py having dependencies declared via the usual way, in install_requires=[...]. One of the packages there, scikits.timeseries, has a setup.py expecting numpy to already be installed, thus, I'd like some way to have numpy installed first. For this case and in general, can the order of dependency installation be controlled? How? Currently the order in which setup.py pulls down dependencies (as listed in the arg install_requires) seems practically random. Also, in the setup.py setup(...) I tried using the arg: extras_require={'scikits.timeseries': ['numpy']}

The python doc for "Writing the Setupscript ( http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html ) mentions that dependencies can be specified under section > 2.4. Relationships between Distributions and Packages [...] These relationships can be specified using keyword arguments to the distutils.core.setup() function. Dependencies on other Python modules and packages can be specified by supplying the requires keyword argument to setup(). The value must be a list of strings. Each string specifies a package that is required, and optionally what versions are sufficient. To specify that any

How do I specify optional dependencies in python's setup.py ? Here's my stab at specifying an optional dependency for an open source library of mine but it doesn't seem to do much. https://github.com/od-eon/django-cherrypy/blob/master/setup.py Specifically extra_requires in this snippet: setup( name='django-cherrypy', version='0.1', packages=packages, license='LICENSE', description='cherrypy, running under django', long_description=open('README.md').read(), author='Calvin Cheng', author_email='calvin@calvinx.com', install_requires=['cherrypy-wsgiserver'], extra_requires=['newrelic'], url=

Is there a way to use an extra python package index (ala pip --extra-index-url pypi.example.org mypackage ) with setup.py so that running python setup.py install can find the packages hosted on pypi.example.org ? Heston Liebowitz If you're the package maintainer, and you want to host one or more dependencies for your package somewhere other than PyPi, you can use the dependency_links option of setuptools in your distribution's setup.py file. This allows you to provide an explicit location where your package can be located. For example: from setuptools import setup setup( name='somepackage',