How to install python package in a specific directory

Question

I\'m developing a twitter app on google appengine - for that I want to use the Twython library. I tried installing it using pip - but it either installs it in the main python di

Answer 1

You could use gaenv (package manager I built for app engine). It only creates symlinks and follows the pip requirements.txt format. You can install & use like:

pip install gaenv
# create requirements.txt -> twython
pip install -r requirements.txt
gaenv

This creates symlinks to gaenv_lib/ of all required libraries. Then will ask to add the import statement.