Python egg file windows

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If I google on "python egg", I get lost of links, which contains huge pages of information, and I'm totally scared off.

Or even better, can there be an icon on the desktop, where I just can drop the egg-file? Follow Post Reply. Diez B. Stef Mientki schrieb: hello, after 4 months playing around with Python, and I still have troubles with egg files.

But this script takes an egg-file as argument, and installs it. Duncan Booth. John Nagle. So you can rename them to ". John Nagle wrote: Diez B. John Nagle thanks guys, I'm slowly getting the picture. My first conclusion that egg-installation didn't work sometimes, has probably to do with version conflicts between the already installed libs and the new to install libs, but I guess that's the benefit of open source ;- So if that's all, the renaming to.

This discussion thread is closed Start new discussion. Then run python get-pip. This will install pip. Verify a successful installation by opening a command prompt window and navigating to your Python installation's script directory default is C:Python27Scripts.

How do you upgrade PIP? How do you update Python? Since you already have Python installed on your machine installer will prompt you for "Upgrade Now". Click on that button and it will replace the existing version with a new one. How do I install a Python egg file? How do I uninstall python site packages? This example will remove the flask package. The command will ask for confirmation after listing the files to be removed.

This may not uninstall pip completely. So again give this command pip uninstall pip If by previous command pip got uninstalled then this command wont run, else it will completely remove pip. What are the two basic tissues of the skin? What are the names of Santa's 12 reindeers? There was a fork of SetupTools called distribute that was eventually merged back into SetupTools. I only mention it because you may see references to that fork if you do much reading about Python eggs outside of this book.

While the egg format is being migrated away from, you do still need to know about it as there are many packages that are distributed using this technology.

It will probably be years before everyone has stopped using eggs. You can think of an egg as just an alternative to a source distribution or Windows executable, but it should be noted that for pure Python eggs, the egg file is completely cross-platform. We will take a look at how to create our own egg using the package we created in a previous modules and packages chapter.

To get started creating an egg, you will need to create a new folder and put the mymath folder inside it.