Install pycairo in virtualenv

Question

I\'ve tried to install pycairo in a virtualenv to use in a Django project. I\'ve ran the pip install pycairo==1.10.0 command which finds the packag

Answer 1

Good news, everyone!

I just released cairocffi: http://packages.python.org/cairocffi/

It’s a replacement for pycairo that installs with pip in a virtualenv, runs on Python 2 and 3, as well as PyPy.

pip install cairocffi

In your code:

import cairocffi as cairo
# Enjoy the same API as Pycairo.

Feedback welcome. (Although the issue tracker might be a better channel than here.)