I am a bloody beginner in Python and Django. To set up a environment on my Windows machine, I performed the following steps.
For the last step, I used pip from my virtualenv.
[project]\scripts\pip.exe install -e [downloads]\Django-1.7b1
From the global python interpreter I can't import django
, as expected. When using the python executable from the virtualenv, it works. But the import only succeeds as long as I have the Django source in my downloads folder. Instead, I would like to include it into my virtualenv.
Can I make pip to automatically copy the Django source into my project folder?
Install django
via pip inside the virtualenv. I'm running Linux but you should be able to run the commands on windows.
If you need a version that's not in PyPi, download the package and install it to the virtualenv site-packages
-folder.
My site-packages
folder for project
is in ~/venvs/project/lib/python2.7/site-packages
.
To install there:
pip install downloads/Django-1.7b1.tar.gz -t ~/venvs/project/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Django will install to the site-packages
folder and is now importable from within the virtualenv. Downloads/Django-1.7b1
is no longer needed.
Below is an example where I'm installing Django 1.7b1 from a local archive to the site-packages
-folder of my virtualenv:
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ pip install /tmp/Django-1.7b1.tar.gz -t ~/venvs/project/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
Unpacking ./Django-1.7b1.tar.gz
Running setup.py egg_info for package from file:///tmp/Django-1.7b1.tar.gz
-- SNIP --
Successfully installed Django
Cleaning up...
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ python -c "import django;print django.get_version()"
1.7b1
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ deactivate
# I've got a really old version installed globally, but you can see
# that the installation worked.
msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ python -c "import django;print django.get_version()"
1.5.1
After this you should find the following output when doing pip freeze
while the virtualenv
is activated:
(project)msvalkon@Lunkwill:/tmp$ pip freeze
Django==1.7b1
argparse==1.2.1
wsgiref==0.1.2