ExtraPythonPackagesDRE

Introduction

So sometimes you'd really like to install some extra Python packages in the DRE. This is fortunately really easy with easy_install.

Details

Once-off installation of easy_install

First you have to install easy_install itself. This only has to happen once, and probably won't be necessary when 11.x is finally released. Do this installation as follows:

• download ez_setup.py from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
• install it with:

dre python /where/you/put/it/ez_setup.py

for example under Windows:

c:\Program Files\DeVIDE-RE\dre python c:\temp\ez_setup.py

Installing Python packages

Now you can install any Python package in the DRE by using easy_install. For example:

c:\Program Files\DeVIDE-RE\python\Scripts\easy_install pymongo

will find pymongo on the Python package repository and install it in the DRE.