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I'm using two python packages that have the same name. http://www.alembic.io/updates.html https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alembic Is there a canonical or pythonic way to handle installing two packages with conflicting names? So far, I've only occasionally needed one of the packages during development/building, so I've been using a separate virtualenv to deal with the conflict, but it makes the build step more complex and I wonder if there isn't a better way to handle it. You could use the --target option for pip and install to an alternate location: pip install --target=/tmp/test/lib/python3.6

If I have packages installed from easy_install , the eggs are prepended to sys.path before the items in the PYTHONPATH variable. For example, if I have an egg package called foo installed as well as a package called foo in the current directory, and then do this: PYTHONPATH="." python >>> import foo This will use the egg version of foo instead of the local directory. Inspecting sys.path shows that eggs are placed before items from PYTHONPATH . This seems broken. Is there any way to override this behavior? Unfortunately this is done with a hard-coded template deep inside setuptools/command/easy

Can someone please explain to me what is going on with python in ubuntu 9.04? I'm trying to spin up virtualenv , and the --no-site-packages flag seems to do nothing with ubuntu. I installed virtualenv 1.3.3 with easy_install (which I've upgraded to setuptools 0.6c9 ) and everything seems to be installed to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages I assume that when installing a package using apt-get, it's placed in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ ? The issue is, there is a /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages as well that just sits there being empty. It would seem (by looking at the path in

How do I stop setup.py from installing a package as an egg? Or even better, how do I easy_install from installing a package as an egg ? sudo python setup.py install The reason being that PyDev is rather picky about packages in egg format... The package I am interested in at the moment is boto . Update: I found the brute force way of doing it: sudo easy_install -m boto cd path/to/boto-xyz.egg sudo mv boto .. sudo rm -rf boto-xyz.egg I feel like I'm missing something subtle or important (encountering this page years after the question was asked and not finding a satisfying answer) however the

I have a module that works both on python 2 and python 3. In Python<3.2 I would like to install a specific package as a dependency. For Python>=3.2. Something like: install_requires=[ "threadpool >= 1.2.7 if python_version < 3.2.0", ], How can one make that? setuptools has support for this using environment markers . install_requires=[ 'enum34;python_version<"3.4"', 'pywin32 >= 1.0;platform_system=="Windows"' ] Use of this is detailed in the official documentation . Based on the change log was added in v20.5, but the implementation wasn't stable until v20.8.1 (which was only a gap of 15 days).

I am tring to create a new plone environment using python plone-devstart.py tool. I got a bootstrap error. So i used a command bin/python bootstrap.py -d from my project directory. It(bin/python bootstrap.py -d command) worked fine before But now i got an error like oomsys@oomsysmob-6:~/demobrun$ bin/python bootstrap.py -d Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute- 0.6.49.tar.gz Extracting in /tmp/tmpDqVwYA Now working in /tmp/tmpDqVwYA/distribute-0.6.49 Building a Distribute egg in /tmp/tmpv4Bzyv /tmp/tmpv4Bzyv/distribute-0.6.49-py2.7.egg Traceback (most