resources within a project directory targeting python 2.5.1
I have python .egg files that are stored in a relative location to some .py code. The problem is, I am targeting python 2.5.1 computers which require my project be self contained in a folder (hundreds of thousands of OLPC XO 8.2.1 release laptops running Sugar). This means I cannot just ./ez_install to perform a system-wide setuptools/pkg_resources installation.
Example directory structure:
My Application/
My Application/library1.egg
My Application/libs/library2.egg
My Application/test.py
I am wondering how best to import and use library1 and library2 from within test.py with no pkg_resources system-wide installation. Is my best option simply to unzip the .egg files?
Thanks for any tips.
If you want to be able to use pkg_resources, just copy pkg_resources.py alongside your application's main script. It's designed to be able to be used this way as a standalone runtime.
Include pkg_resources.py in the lib/ directory.
Add at the top of example.py...
import sys
sys.path.append("lib/")
import pkg_resources
and then you can...
sys.path.append("library1.egg")
sys.path.append("libs/library2.egg")
import library1
import library2