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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

  1. Use pip to pull the latest version of the package directly from PyPI:
      $ pip install <package_name>
  1. Alternately, a specific version of the package can be downloaded:
      $ pip install <package_name>==1.2.2

Here is an example of downgrading pygments from our earlier install in pipenv:

  1. As a final option, a minimum version of a package can be downloaded; this is common when a package has a significant change between versions:
      $ pip install "<package_name> >= 1.1"
  1. If a PyPI package has a wheel file available, pip will automatically download the wheel; otherwise, it will pull the source code and compile it.
 $ pip install ...
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