[Cialug] Tasks for learning shell scripting

[Chris Freeman]

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.

Again, my experience is very limited here, so someone else may want to chime
in.

Chris

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
> <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> > Just curious, what is the Python equivalent of CPAN, and how much is
> > comparatively available, and how well does it work? I'd like to learn
> > Python and if i can get lots of modules easily, that would help.
> >
>
> PyPi:
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi
>
> It's more of a listing than an archive. I think of it as a reference
> tool and when I want to do something I usually start at Google and end
> up on PyPi. When you find something you like you download it, untar it
> and do python setup.py install to get it going.
>
> Or, once you know that the package does what you want you search your
> package manager for it.
>
> The other day I went through this process for sphinx because the
> packaged version was too new and I needed an older version to build
> the Django documentation.
>
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