December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
11h 54m
English
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Installing PyXML
Once Python is installed, additional packages may be added with relative ease. PyXML takes advantage of the Python Distribution Utilities, or distutils. To get the PyXML package, visit the project’s SourceForge project page and look at the available downloads for the most recent version (0.6.6 at the time of this writing). The web page is at http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/.
For Windows, there is a selection of installers; one for each supported Python version. For bug-fix releases of Python (such as 2.1.1), use the installer for the corresponding feature enhancement for Python (2.1 for this example), as binary compatibility is maintained. Download the installer and run it like any other Windows installer; it locates all the Python installations of the appropriate version as you select the installation to which you want to add PyXML. Once you’ve done so, installation proceeds and PyXML is available for that Python interpreter.
For Unix, retrieve the .tar.gz archive containing the version of
PyXML you’ve selected and unpack it just as you did the Python source
distribution. Change your working directory to be the top-level
directory of the unpacked distribution. That directory contains a Python
script named setup.py; run that
with the Python interpreter for which you’re installing PyXML and the
command-line parameter build:
$> python setup.py build
This builds all the components of PyXML from their Python or C source code. Once this is complete, install the package ...
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