Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python

Slides:

• Virtualenv
• Distutils
• Setuptools
• Buildout

Exercises:

• Installing Tools for the Class

  $ cd /tmp

  $ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

  $ sudo python ez_setup.py

  $ sudo easy_install virtualenv

  $ sudo easy_install zc.buildout

• Setting a Sandbox or Two

  $ virtualenv pycon

  $ virtualenv --no-site-packages pycon

  $ cd pycon

  $ bin/python

  $ source bin/activate -or- activate.bat

  $ deactivate

  • explore:

    • directory tree
    • sys.path

  • for each kind of sandbox