Using Pip On Repl.it
Repl.it allows you to easily load Python modules that are on PyPi, but I needed to write some code that relied on a Python module hosted on GitHub specifically (long story short: it's a temporary fork of another Python package, and I didn't feel it would be necessary to deploy it up onto PyPi). So I wound up doing some weird stuff to wind up using that Python package hosted on GitHub.
You can read my blog post to explain the weird stuff that I did: https://tra38.github.io/blog/using-pip-on-repl-it.html
Here is my final Repl (https://repl.it/@tra38/LittleNiftySubweb-Experimental\) where I successfully loaded up my Python package from GitHub.
I hope this experience will be useful for you if you wind up needing to do something like this!
Your post is 8 months old. I've joined Repl.it just a few weeks ago and I see git is now available in the shell. I was wondering if you later got a chance to try pip with GitHub.
@PaoloAmoroso Eventually, my code was merged into the master branch and the updated package deployed onto PyPy, so I didn't really need to maintain the "Experimental" repl, and just used https://repl.it/@tra38/LittleNiftySubweb exclusively.
Your post did inspire me to fork my existing repl and update it to use git instead of a zip file. It works wonderfully. Here's my new repl that proves that I can indeed install package with pip using a git url. No more zip files for me!
The code snippet:
def set_up_user_directory():
import sys
import site
# this makes it work
if not os.path.exists(site.USER_SITE):
os.makedirs(site.USER_SITE)
# since I'm installing with --user, packages
# should be installed here,
#so make sure it's on the path
sys.path.insert(0, site.USER_SITE)
def install(package):
set_up_user_directory()
import pip
pip.main(['install', package, "--user", "--upgrade"])
install("git+https://github.com/tra38/[email protected]")@tra38 Thanks for the update.
Doesn't work for me? Any help? It says module howdoi not found.
@JJJ2008 Hi, I just tried to run the repl and it works for me, but I do see an exception message:
Looking at the GitHub issue link, it seems that sometimes it might raise the "module [module_name] not found" error, so I will try to fix that warning. For now, can you try the script to see if it is now usable? Thanks.
@tra38 still doesn't work, but I found a different way