On 19 September 2016 at 19:55, אלעזר <elaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > A library in PyPi still requires installing it, which undermine many of the > benefits. It won't help me with my gist/activestate recipe, code that I send > to a friend, etc. I want to lower the barrier of inexperienced users. > > As a documentation of dependencies it will suffice indeed. > > Elazar > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:38 PM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> >> On 09/19/2016 09:25 AM, אלעזר wrote: >> >> > Many proposals to add something to stdlib are rejected here with the >> > suggestion to add such library to pypi first. As noted by someone, pypi is >> > not as reachable as stdlib, and one should install that package first, >> > which >> > many people don't know how. Additionally, there is no natural distinction >> > between 3rd party dependencies and in-project imports (at least in tiny >> > projects). >> > >> > This can be made easier if the first line of the program will declare >> > the required library, and executing it will try to download and install >> > that >> > library if it is not installed yet. Additionally, the 3rd party >> > dependencies >> > will be more explicit, and editors can then allow you to search for them as >> > you type. >> > >> > Of course it is *not* an alternative for real dependency management, but >> > it will ease the burden on small scripts and tiny projects - which today >> > simply break with errors that many users does not understand, instead of >> > simply asking permission to install the dependency. >> >> This should start out as a library on PyPI. (Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) >> >> Actually, it should. Perhaps a name of "import_pip" would make sense? >> Any hurdles faced by this library would be (mostly) the same as a stdlib >> version. >> >> -- >> ~Ethan~ >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> Python-ideas@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
using pip from within python is not that difficult already. as can be seen with a glance to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12332975/installing-python-module-within-code _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
