Easiest way to automatically download required modules in Python?

Question

I would like to release a python module I wrote which depends on several packages. What\'s the easiest way to make it so these packages are programmatically downloaded just

Answer 1

See the setuptools docs on how to declare your dependencies -- this will allow easy_install to find, download and install all of them (and transitive closure thereof) if everything's available in PyPi, or otherwise if you specify the dependencies' URLs.

Answer 2

pip uses requirements files, which have a very straightforward format.

For more Python packaging tooling recommendations, see the latest from the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).