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Python Essentials

By : Steven F. Lott
Book Image

Python Essentials

By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Python Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Leveraging PyPI – the Python Package Index


After scanning the library, the next place to look for additional Python packages is the Python Package Index (PyPI) at https://pypi.python.org/pypi. There are thousands of packages listed here, with varying degrees of support and quality.

As we noted in Chapter 1, Getting Started, Python 3.4 also installs two scripts to help us add packages, pip and easy_install. These search PyPI for the requested package. Most packages can be found by using their name; the tools locate the appropriate release for the platform and Python version.

We've mentioned a few external libraries in other chapters:

Additionally, there are bundles of packages available: we might install Anaconda, NumPy, or SciPy, each of which includes...