On 9 August 2021 1:06:23 am AWST, cal <c...@mail.meme.technology> wrote: >On 8/8/21 5:12 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, I am trying to install the ssspsk python module using pip for python >> 2 (for tuya-convert) but its not working. >> >> I have installed python 2.7 from portage and followed the wiki (set >> python_targets, emerge -NuDv etc.), however pip seems to only know how >> to install for python3. >> >> For python 2.7 do I need to go completely manual for installation? >> >> BillK >> >Gentoo's dev-lang/python package configures Python --without-ensurepip, >meaning that pip will not be installed alongside this package by >default. There is a separate dev-python/pip package providing pip, but >it appears this package only supports Python 3 targets (which is >reasonable as 2.7 is no longer supported upstream). > >If you *really* need Python 2.7, you could modify the ebuild of >dev-lang/python-2.7 to enable --with-ensurepip, or you could try to make >the dev-python/pip package support the python2_7 target, or you could >download the source from python.org and configure/build it yourself into >a separate directory. > >However, it is probably worth first checking if there is a release of >the software you want to use that supports Python 3 instead. > >cal >
Thanks, I'll look into this. BillK
