• buildout
• pycon2008 tutorial

Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python

Slides:

• Virtualenv
• Distutils
• Setuptools
• Buildout

Exercises:

1. 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

2. Instantiating a Sandbox or Two

   $ virtualenv pycon -or-

   $ 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
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