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Ways of installing python module

I'm new to python, about a month.
I know installing python modules can be done by using pip or easy_install. But when I was trying to install the regex module it gave me an error.
Typing pip install re in cmd gave me the following errors;
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement re (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for re
So I went to PyPI and downloaded a file there and now PyCharm doesn't give error when I import the module anymore.
So are there any difference between these ways of downloading Python modules or it doesn't matter ?
I'm using Windows 10 and have Python 3.8 and 3.8.1.

re is a built-in module, therefore you are not required to install this with pip.
Python Built-In Modules

re is part of the Python standard library so there is no need to install it separately. There are many ways to 'install' a package, e.g. using easy_install, pipx, venv, poetry, etc., but pip install --user is likely the way you're going to want to go to get started until you run into a compelling reason to explore other options. Either way, all these tools are essentially just various ways to move packages into PYTHONPATH, the place that Python looks for packages by default.

Installing MySQLDb python module *without* Internet Connection

Installing MySQLDb (Python module) without Internet Connection
Hi all,
I need to install MySQLDb on a SLES 11 Development Server. This Dev Server does not have access to the public internet due to corporate firewall policies. I was assuming this would merely be a nuisance which would force me to do source installations etc on things more easily installed otherwise. Instead, I have hit a wall, during my attempt to ultimately install and run Django with MySQL support.
I have downloaded and unzipped MySQL-python-1.2.4, and I am attempting to run its setup.py. However, any attempt to run setup.py, even just sudo python setup.py --help, reults in the following
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.28.tar.gz
And then of course the download fails.
I downloaded and installed the current version of the distribute module (0.7.3), via sudo python setup.py build install. I assumed this would keep mysql-python's setup.py from trying to download distribute. But that does not appear to matter. I did have a quick look at mysql-client's setup.py to see where the download was being forced. It appears that its setup.py does this:
from distribute_setup import use_setuptools
use_setuptools()
Which calls this:
def use_setuptools(version=DEFAULT_VERSION, download_base=DEFAULT_URL,
to_dir=os.curdir, download_delay=15, no_fake=True):
# making sure we use the absolute path
to_dir = os.path.abspath(to_dir)
was_imported = 'pkg_resources' in sys.modules or \
'setuptools' in sys.modules
try:
try:
import pkg_resources
if not hasattr(pkg_resources, '_distribute'):
if not no_fake:
_fake_setuptools()
raise ImportError
except ImportError:
return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay)
And this, the import of pkg_resources fails (I have reproduced this from the command line); and the exception handler tries a download, which of course fails.
My understanding is that distribute is deprecated anyway, and that setuptools should be used instead. I do have setuptools installed; but is the mysqldb module hardcoded to use distribute, and possibly a specific version of distribute, and that's my issue? To be honest at this point I'm a bit confused about modules, dependencies, etc in Python (I'm quite mediocre at Python).
Thanks all,
Bean

git clone https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL or download tarball. for mysqldb: https://github.com/farcepest/MySQLdb1
untar it
run sudo python setup.py install
That's all.

Guess it's too late, but for the sake of the future googlers...
I had the same problem. To solve it I had to comment these lines:
if not hasattr(pkg_resources, '_distribute'):
if not no_fake:
_fake_setuptools()
raise ImportError
After this I was able to install MySQL-python via python setup.py install.

The answer to this question appears to be version dependent. MySQLDb version 1.2.5 (newest version as of this writing) and later do not require distribute so python setup.py install will work. Version 1.2.5 was released 01/2014 so this question is just that old.

import libtorrent not working

I installed libtorrent-rasterbar on a mac with brew. After I installed I check if it was good installed with the command:
brew install libtorrent-rasterbar
And I get:
Warning: libtorrent-rasterbar-0.16.10 already installed
So installation looks to be ok.
If I go to python and type "import libtorrent" y get an error.
Also if I type:
>>>help('modules')
I dont see libtorrent in the list.
What I'm doing wrong?

Brew has nothing to do with Python. It'll just install system libraries. If you want to install libraries/modules for Python, you should use pip (recommended) or easy_install.
I couldn't find very good Python support for libtorrent in particular, although there is great support for other torrent libraries like PyTorrent.
If you must use libtorrent-rasterbar, there's a great tutorial on how to do it on Super User

I've installed Bottle for Python 2.7, but how to access ir from Python 3.2?

I have installed bottle on my Ubuntu Linux server using
sudo pip install bottle
and it is installed to: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
But I also have Python 3.2 installed on my system, and I want to access bottle from Python 3.2. Python 3.2 does not seem to recognise that bottle is installed.
What am I doing wrong?

You'd have to separately install it for Python 3.2 (with e.g. sudo pip-3.2 install bottle).
It's currently in python2.7/dist-packages, meaning that only 2.7 is going to load it. You could try to add that to your PYTHONPATH or similar, but that will very rarely work between Python 2 and 3 because the source files aren't quite compatible. (Any C extensions are also certainly not going to work, though bottle doesn't have any of those.)
Unfortunately, although that command works, it looks like the version of bottle in pypi isn't Python 3-compatible even when installed through pip-3.2:
In [1]: import bottle
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/bin/bottle.py", line 373
except re.error, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
The homepage claims that it works with 3.x, but I got that error installing with both pip and easy_install. The latest development version, which is just a single file linked from the homepage, seems to work, though.

You are not doing anything wrong. Pip uses the /usr/bin/python by default and only installs there.
Unless you want to setup virtualenv-s, you probably best copy the current pip to pip3.2 and edit that to call python 3.2:
sudo -s -H
p=$(which pip)
cat $p | sed "1s|/usr/bin/python|$(which python3.2)|" > $p"3.2"
chmod 755 $p"3.2"
exit
You now have a pip3.2 that will install bottle so python3.2 can use it. If you get an error running pip3.2 about not finding pkg_resources look at No module named pkg_resources

I'll answer this myself. Turns out the latest release version of pip does not include pip-3.2. You need to download the development version and use that, which includes pip-3.2.

Just download it manually from offsite. It is just one file.
Place it into the lib/site-packages folder and give the file proper rights.

Cannot install python packages from source-code

I need to install PIL (python imaging library) on my Ubunto10.4-32bit (EDIT:64bit) machine on my python2.5.4-32bit.
This question is also relevant to any other source package I guess (among those that I need are RPyC,psyco and numpy).
I downloaded the source-code since I can't find any neat package to do the job and did
a sudo python2.5 setup.py install.
output:
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 9, in <module>
import glob, os, re, struct, string, sys
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/struct.py", line 30, in <module>
from _struct import Struct, error
ImportError: No module named _struct
but
echo $PYTHONHOME
/usr
Well, in the file struct.py theres the line from _struct import Struct, error
This is part of the python source code itself so I really wonder whats wrong with the python installation, since the code fails to import the module.
I installed py2.5.4 by doing:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make altinstall
(using make altinstall since I need py26 as default python interpreter)
EDIT: This issue might have risen from mistakenly using a 64bit platform :) and 32bit python2.5 . So anyhow problem solved by reducing unnecessary complexities - switching to 32bit machine and porting app to python 2.6.

In short:
Try using the Ubuntu repository first. If the package isn't there, use easy_install. If all fails, download the package directly to your source folder.
Ubuntu repository (the apt-get approach)
Ubuntu (10.04 and newer) has most mainstream packages are available with apt-get. The naming convention is python-NAME, e.g. python-imaging or python-scipy.
This is the best way to go, since the native package manager will handle any dependencies and updates issues.
Run apt-cache search python | grep "^python-" | less to see a list of packages available for your system (I have over 1,200 in my 10.04 machine).
Setuptools
For packages that are not part of the Ubuntu repository, you can use the python easy-install tool. First, install the setup tool:
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
And you can install any Python package, e.g. colorworld, using easy-install:
sudo easy_install colorworld
This gives you some degree of protection (e.g., handles dependencies) but updates are generally manual, and it's a real pain to reinstall all these packages in a new computer.
Manual download
You can always download the source code to some directory and add it to your PYTHONPATH. It's the best approach when you just need to evaluate a package or apply some quick-and-dirty solution.

sudo aptitude install python-imaging
This will install PIL library.

sudo aptitude install python-imaging
That will install PIL. But I'm not really sure how to help with your other packages. Maybe try searching for them in synaptic.