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From: znavko@disroot.org
To: "Jelle Licht" <jlicht@fsfe.org>, "help-guix" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to use pip3 libs abcent in guix repo?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:09:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1067ab1147ffd48fc9e294f7660fea03@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v9ap5qic.fsf@fsfe.org>

Thank you for tricks!


February 18, 2021 3:45 PM, "Jelle Licht" <jlicht@fsfe.org> wrote:

> Hey Znavko,
> 
> znavko--- via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> Hello, developers and users!
>> I wish to use python-binance, ta-lib, python-websocket-client, python-numpy as in this video
>> https://youtu.be/GdlFhF6gjKo?t=713 (https://youtu.be/GdlFhF6gjKo?t=713)
>> Guix repository already has python-numpy, python-websocket-client packages, but others abcent.
>> 
>> How can I use python libs downloading them from web without installation by guix pm?
>> Is there proper way to setup python libraries in my system, where to place it and how to link it?
> 
> As a python 'noob' who started seriously playing around with it about a
> week ago, I might save you some hassle:
> 
> It is really, really much easier to work with guix-managed dependencies;
> check out the guix pypi importer to see how this can work.
> 
> If you do not want do that, for whichever reason, I can recommend using
> a virtualenv. Open a guix environment by issuing:
> 
> `guix environment --ad-hoc python-pip python-virtualenv python-numpy python-websocket-client
> python'
> 
> Note that it is important that the "python" package comes last in this
> invocation!
> 
> In the spawned shell, run:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> virtualenv -p python3 my-amazing-venv
> source my-amazing-venv/bin/activate
> pip3 install python-binance
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> After that, but still in your `guix environment' + `source
> my-amazing-venv/bin/activate' shell, you should be able to verify that
> you can load up binance:
> `python3 -m binance'
> 
> It won't complain about not finding the binance module, so in this case,
> no output = good news.
> 
> Because all of this is a kind of terrible user experience, it might make
> sense to string all of this stuff together in a shell script. Again, I'd
> like to state that simply getting all of the packages you need packaged
> for guix (locally or in guix proper) makes all of this complexity go away.
> 
> HTH,
> - Jelle


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-18 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17 20:42 How to use pip3 libs abcent in guix repo? znavko--- via
2021-02-18 15:08 ` Hartmut Goebel
2021-02-18 15:45 ` Jelle Licht
2021-02-18 16:22   ` Vincent Legoll
2021-02-18 16:34     ` Jelle Licht
2021-02-18 18:09 ` znavko [this message]

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