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| * [http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/dist/dist.html Distributing Python Modules] - information for developers * [http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/inst/inst.html Installing Python Modules] - information for users and system administrators |
* [http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html Distributing Python Modules] - information for developers * [http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html Installing Python Modules] - information for users and system administrators |
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| * [http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/pypi/pypi-xmlrpc.html PyPI's XML-RPC interface] for querying the packages database | |
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| DistUtilsExtensions is a repository of extensions for your "setup.py". | Projects: * DistutilsProjects - please add a listing to this page if you're working on Distutils (and help us reduce duplication of effort) * DistUtilsExtensions is a repository of extensions for your "setup.py". Tutorials: * DistUtilsTutorial is a small tutorial to introduce the topic. It includes a complete demo, from start to finish. ---- '''Q.''' ''Can you use distutils (i.e., your setup.py file) to '''un'''install a given package?'' '''A.''' Unfortunately, no. This would be a useful feature to have though... |
"distutils" is by now the standard mechanism to distribute Python packages and extensions, and appeared in Python 1.6. It runs under 1.5.2 though, but you have to install it (once) to use it for that Python version.
Documentation:
[http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html Distributing Python Modules] - information for developers
[http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html Installing Python Modules] - information for users and system administrators
[http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/ distutils SIG]
[http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/pypi/pypi-xmlrpc.html PyPI's XML-RPC interface] for querying the packages database
Projects:
DistutilsProjects - please add a listing to this page if you're working on Distutils (and help us reduce duplication of effort)
DistUtilsExtensions is a repository of extensions for your "setup.py".
Tutorials:
DistUtilsTutorial is a small tutorial to introduce the topic. It includes a complete demo, from start to finish.
Q. Can you use distutils (i.e., your setup.py file) to uninstall a given package?
A. Unfortunately, no. This would be a useful feature to have though...