I've only done one project in Python (it was fun), but we used easy_install. I don't remember the specifics, but it behaves very similarly to apt/yum and gem. It was much easier to use than CPAN.<div><br></div><div>
Again, my experience is very limited here, so someone else may want to chime in.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley<br>
<<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Just curious, what is the Python equivalent of CPAN, and how much is<br>
> comparatively available, and how well does it work? I'd like to learn<br>
> Python and if i can get lots of modules easily, that would help.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>PyPi:<br>
<a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi" target="_blank">http://pypi.python.org/pypi</a><br>
<br>
It's more of a listing than an archive. I think of it as a reference<br>
tool and when I want to do something I usually start at Google and end<br>
up on PyPi. When you find something you like you download it, untar it<br>
and do python setup.py install to get it going.<br>
<br>
Or, once you know that the package does what you want you search your<br>
package manager for it.<br>
<br>
The other day I went through this process for sphinx because the<br>
packaged version was too new and I needed an older version to build<br>
the Django documentation.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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