Re: [Myghty-users] What's this pkg_resources thing?

[Ben B. <be...@gr...>]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:11 PM, sk...@po... wrote:

> I installed Myghty 0.99a this evening.  As a side-effect it  
> installed a
> bunch of other stuff as egg files.  This seems to be something to  
> do with
> setuptools.  The install process emitted several messages like this:
>
>     Because this distribution was installed --multi-version or -- 
> install-dir,
>     before you can import modules from this package in an  
> application, you
>     will need to 'import pkg_resources' and then use a 'require()'  
> call
>     similar to one of these examples, in order to select the  
> desired version:
>
>         pkg_resources.require("Myghty")  # latest installed version
>         pkg_resources.require("Myghty==0.99a")  # this exact version
>         pkg_resources.require("Myghty>=0.99a")  # this version or  
> higher
>
> Unfortunately, it seems to have seen fit to not install a  
> pkg_resources
> module that I can import directly.  There is one in the
> setuptools.06a5-py2.3.egg directory (not a package).  How am I  
> supposed to
> use this?

What command did you use to install Myghty? There's nothing in it  
that should be using multi-version so I'm un-sure why this would  
happen. Also, your setuptools is out of date, so this might have been  
fixed.

Run: easy_install -U -D setuptools
Then: easy_install -U -D Myghty

It should hopefully update you to the latest setuptools, and Myghty,  
and everything should be fine. (Lots of 'shoulds', I know)

Cheers,
Ben