README_python-install.html

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goal: easily install my python code to standard locations so I don't
have filesystem specific directories to keep track of

Even without root, you should be able to do "python setup.py install --user"

https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/introduction.html#distutils-simple-example

foo.py:
class foo:
    def hello(self):
        print "hello!"

main.py
import foo
myfoo = foo.foo()
myfoo.hello()

> python main.py
#hello!

setup.py:
from distutils.core import setup
setup(name='foo',
      version='1.0',
      py_modules=['foo'],
      )

> python setup.py sdist

# now install it
mkdir tmp
cp dist/foo-1.0.tar.gz tmp/
cd tmp
tar zxvf foo-1.0.tar.gz
cd foo-1.0
python setup.py install --user

####

This installs in .local. Now I can "import foo" when running as
mpsb. I could also do root install to make available for everyone.

#### install using pip. 
http://python-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/minimal.html

The "-e" links to source files, so changes made in source are
available immediately.... but don't move the source!

pip install --user -e .

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Put on github:

on github create project "pythoninstalltest"
> https://github.com/michaelbrownid/pythoninstalltest.git

Create .gitignore

# set up git
git config --global user.email "michaelbrown14142@gmail.com"
git config --global user.name "michaelbrownid"

git init
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/michaelbrownid/pythoninstalltest.git
git push -u origin master