A short introduction on how to install packages from the , and how to make, distribute and upload your own.

This guide is no longer being maintained - more up to date and complete information is in the .

Installing Distributions

There are several ways to install packages from PyPI into your Python installation:

Pip

Pip is a modern, general purpose installation tool for python packages. Most often it is useful to install it in your system python.

Instructions for installing pip can be found on its relevant .

Some example, hopefully self-evident commands:

• $ pip install requests
• $ pip search xml
• $ pip show beautifulsoup4
• $ pip uninstall requests