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Installing python extension module : understanding skbuild+setuptools

I am one of the devs of a (fairly large) C++ simulation tool. Disclaimer : I'm more of a physicist than a dev. I wrote Python bindings for that project using pybind11.
I managed to get the Python module to compile with cmake. I then managed to write a setup.py file using skbuild that does compile the Python module :
python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
In _skbuild/linux-x86_64-3.9/cmake-build/lib/ (and in the tar archive dist/cytosim-0.0.0.tar.gz) there is indeed a compiled library : cytosim.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so.
However, when I want to install the module :
pip3 install dist
I get an error :
gcc: error: src/py3/dist.c: No such file or directory
I am very confused because I do not have an directory called py3 in src.
Any pointer ? Anything I'm doing wrong ? Thanks !

The command
pip3 install dist
tries (and fails) to install the dist package from the pypi repository.
Maybe try
pip3 install dist/cytosim-0.0.0.tar.gz
instead.

Cannot install Python projects in readthedocs

I've got a couple of projects here for which I'm preparing documentation at the moment, hosted at readthedocs.org. FYI, all of them use poetry and I use custom .readthedocs.yml files with this entry:
python:
install:
- method: pip
path: .
It works fine for most projects, but it fails for two for different reasons during installation of the project via pip:
The first one uses PyGObject, which failes like this:
Package gobject-introspection-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-introspection-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gobject-introspection-1.0' found
Command '('pkg-config', '--print-errors', '--exists', 'gobject-introspection-1.0 >= 1.56.0')' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Try installing it with: 'sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev'
So it seems that PyGObject cannot be installed without some system packages to be installed. I could rearrange the code so that the import is not top-level. But still I need it in the dependencies. Can I tell pip install to ignore this single package somehow? Any other idea?
The second project compiles some C++ code via Cython and fails, because it's missing a library. I use a custom build script in the pyproject.toml:
[tool.poetry.build]
script = "build.py"
generate-setup-file = false
Is there some flag in pip that I could set and retrieve in build.py to skip the compilation? Or is there a better way?

Installing GDAL Python binding in Ubuntu to use as standalone module

I am trying to export a GeoTiff with Blender using the Blender Python API (based on Python 3), so I've decided to install GDAL on Ubuntu (14.04). What I would like is to get the module as a standalone folder that I could put in the modules directory of Blender (/home/user/.config/blender/2.73/scripts/modules).
The thing is I've run through several different problems trying to install GDAL. I've tried to install from source (for GDAL 2.0.0) here : Official PyPi Gdal
I ran sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev gdal-bin (I list it here because it may be important)
When I am in the extracted GDAL folder, using python setup.py build & python setup.py install, the library installs to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/osgeo. However, when I run python from command line, running from osgeo import osr returns ImportError: No module named _gdal
Following GDAL via pip , I used pip (pip install GDAL) to install the library, and the folder it went to was /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/osgeo (using pip show ...). Again, running python3 and trying to import results in the same error. Of course, when I copy-paste each folder in the blender module directory, I get the same error in the Blender Python console.
So I decided to compile the sources using ./configure --with-python & make & make install in the source folder. I then copied the folder GDAL-x.x.x/build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/osgeo to the blender modules directory and got this time the error when importing : ImportError: /home/yvesu/.config/blender/2.73/scripts/modules/osgeo/_gdal.so: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct.
Trying to compile with python3 using python3 setup.py build returns the error error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
EDIT 1:
I think I've found the solution : I went to the directory swig/python (not found in a GDAL-1.11.0 folder but gdal-1.11.0 fodler, can't remember where I downloaded it from), ran python3 setup.py build & python3 setup.py install and could finally find the folder in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/GDAL-1.11.0-py3.4-linux-x86_64.egg/osgeo. When I put this osgeo folder oni the Blender modules directory, I was able to import osgeo in Blender. I will report if anything went wrong.
I think I've listed all my attempts at installing GDAL on Ubuntu. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Do you think it is even possible to install it as a standalone module, or do I need linked libraries through LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Here is the solution I've found :
Download Gdal sources (v2.0.0 is the current stable release) from ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/gdal/2.0.0/ or http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/ and untar
Go to the directory gdal2.0.0/swig/python
Run python3 setup.py build & python3 setup.py install
Finally find the module folder in, on Ubuntu : /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/GDAL-2.0.0-py3.4-linux-x86_64.egg/osgeo
I can now use it in Blender (copying in the modules directory)

Python-Asurv Installation

When I try to install python-asurv using setup.py, (typing "path"\python "path"\setup.py install in the command prompt), I get the following error:
building extension "twokm" sources target build\src.win32-2.7\twokmmodule.c does not exist: Assuming twokmmodule.c was generated with "build_src --inplace" command. error: '.\\twokmmodule.c' missing`
I am on windows 7 64bit with 32bit python2.7
In the zip file that I downloaded, there is setup.py, asurv.py, asurv.pyc, two licences, a readme, and twokm.pyf and twokm.f, which I think are in fortran format (don't know anything about fortran). The README just says type python setup.py install.
I think that for the twokm.pyf and twokm.f files I need to use f2py to convert them to .py files, am I right?
How can I install python-asurv?

Make sure you have installed numpy at it is dependency of python-asurv
Do pip install numpy and then Do python setup.py install in the directory you have downloaded.

Installing a .tar.bz2 in windows

I am a newbie to installing python extensions working on Windows 7, running Python 2.6 - I need to install the Levenshtein library from
http://code.google.com/p/pylevenshtein/downloads/detail?name=python-Levenshtein-0.10.1.tar.bz2&can=2&q=
When I unzip the downloaded file, it gives me the following list of files:
COPYING
gendoc.sh
Levenshtein.c
Levenshtein.h
MANIFEST
NEWS
PKG-INFO
README
setup.cfg
setup.py
StringMatcher.py
How do I install the Levenshtein library so I could import and use it into my python code?

Assuming you have Python already installed on on you PATH, you can do this:
python setup.py install
However, it seems to have a compiled extension so you will probably also need a complete Windows development environment to install that (it is a source distribution). So if you don't it may not work. Your best bet would be to find that as an MSI package, if you can.

Here is quite a large section of the documentation easily found by doing some research.
http://docs.python.org/install/index.html
It appears that you will want to run:
python setup.py install --prefix="\Temp\Python"
to install modules to the \Temp\Python directory on the current drive.
Some more info:
If you don’t choose an installation directory—i.e., if you just run
setup.py install—then the install command installs to the standard
location for third-party Python modules.
The default installation directory on Windows was C:\Program Files\Python under Python 1.6a1, 1.5.2, and earlier.