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Require packages in my script

I have a python script that makes use of the requests library. I was wondering if there was a more elegant way to go about displaying packages required to run my script other than exception handling on the import statements. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Solution

  • The packages required to run any python script mention in top of the script by import moduleName.

    you can get a list of installed packages in your python by this:

    import pip
installed_packages = pip.get_installed_distributions()
for pack in installed_packages:
    print pack

    Use this in top of your code this will install required modules if missing from python.

    try:
    import yourModule
except ImportError:
    # Do installation process here
    # pip install module ...