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cyrille.leroux at gmail

Jul 31, 2012, 6:36 AM

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docx/lxml

Hello,

I'm trying to use the docx package to generate documents containing some text and tables.

I don't want to install any module since I just want my coworkers to copy a directory and run a script, without installing tons of softwares (Just python2.7 which is already installed).

First, I downloaded docx package, copied the docx directory I found. Then, I added its path (sys.path.append())

But it complained it missed a lxml package. Ok, I downloaded it, copied the lxml directory.

This time, it wanted a etree.py file. I search and found it is generated during installation... But I don't want to install it ! I searched again, and found that anyway, even if I install it to get this file, it will need other libraries... At this point, I already lost too much time, so I quit. It's way too much work for what I have to do.

[My questions :]

- Do you know any *easy to use*, *easy to deploy* package to generate ".doc like" documents ?
- Do you have any suggestion to do it differently (maybe with native packages ?)

- As a python newby, I don't understand why you have to go through the pain of installing packages since they should be able to work with just the __init__.py files ?

Regards,

Cyrille
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kroger at pedrokroger

Jul 31, 2012, 7:00 AM

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Re: docx/lxml [In reply to]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:36 AM, cyrille.leroux [at] gmail wrote:

> - Do you know any *easy to use*, *easy to deploy* package to generate ".doc like" documents ?
> - Do you have any suggestion to do it differently (maybe with native packages ?)
>
> - As a python newby, I don't understand why you have to go through the pain of installing packages since they should be able to work with just the __init__.py files ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Cyrille

Hi,

May I suggest you use pip and, possibly, virtualenv?
pip makes it easy to install Python packages while virtualenv creates an isolated Python environment

For instance, I just installed docx and its dependencies with:

pip install docx lxml datutils PIL

And I did that inside a testing virtualenv, so I wouldn't mess up my Python setup.

pip and virtualenv make it really easy and painless to install Python packages.

Cheers,

Pedro
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cyrille.leroux at gmail

Jul 31, 2012, 8:01 AM

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Re: docx/lxml [In reply to]

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:00:25 PM UTC+2, Pedro Kroger wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Cyrille Leroux wrote:
>
>
>
> > - Do you know any *easy to use*, *easy to deploy* package to generate ".doc like" documents ?
>
> > - Do you have any suggestion to do it differently (maybe with native packages ?)
>
> >
>
> > - As a python newby, I don't understand why you have to go through the pain of installing packages since they should be able to work with just the __init__.py files ?
>
> >
>
> > Regards,
>
> >
>
> > Cyrille
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> May I suggest you use pip and, possibly, virtualenv?
>
> pip makes it easy to install Python packages while virtualenv creates an isolated Python environment
>
>
>
> For instance, I just installed docx and its dependencies with:
>
>
>
> pip install docx lxml datutils PIL
>
>
>
> And I did that inside a testing virtualenv, so I wouldn't mess up my Python setup.
>
>
>
> pip and virtualenv make it really easy and painless to install Python packages.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Pedro
>
> -----
>
> http://pedrokroger.net
>
> http://musicforgeeksandnerds.com

Thank you for your quick reply Pedro.

I'm giving pip a try :

1/ Linux (debian lenny)
- (as root) sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg (ok)
- (as root) cd pip-1.1 ; python setup.py install (ok)
- pip : ImportError : No module named pkg_resources
- damn, I guess it's going to be a pain, again
- ... then I remember that anyway, I cannot access internet from my session
- end of story for linux

2/ Back on Windows (7)

- setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe (ok)
- (cmd) easy_install.exe pip : AttributeError : 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clone'

Well, I think I'm starting to feel less and less enthusiastic about python... I didn't suspect it would be so difficult to write a basic doc file :)
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cyrille.leroux at gmail

Jul 31, 2012, 8:01 AM

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Re: docx/lxml [In reply to]

stefan_ml at behnel

Jul 31, 2012, 8:13 AM

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Re: docx/lxml [In reply to]

Cyrille Leroux, 31.07.2012 17:01:
> I'm giving pip a try :
>
>
> 1/ Linux (debian lenny)
> - (as root) sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg (ok)
> - (as root) cd pip-1.1 ; python setup.py install (ok)
> - pip : ImportError : No module named pkg_resources
> - damn, I guess it's going to be a pain, again
> - ... then I remember that anyway, I cannot access internet from my session
> - end of story for linux
>
>
> 2/ Back on Windows (7)
>
> - setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe (ok)
> - (cmd) easy_install.exe pip : AttributeError : 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clone'
>
> Well, I think I'm starting to feel less and less enthusiastic about python... I didn't suspect it would be so difficult to write a basic doc file :)

"pip" goes with "distribute", not "setuptools".

http://packages.python.org/distribute/

Stefan

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cyrille.leroux at gmail

Jul 31, 2012, 8:51 AM

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Re: docx/lxml [In reply to]

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:13:12 PM UTC+2, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Cyrille Leroux, 31.07.2012 17:01:
>
> > I'm giving pip a try :
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > 1/ Linux (debian lenny)
>
> > - (as root) sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg (ok)
>
> > - (as root) cd pip-1.1 ; python setup.py install (ok)
>
> > - pip : ImportError : No module named pkg_resources
>
> > - damn, I guess it's going to be a pain, again
>
> > - ... then I remember that anyway, I cannot access internet from my session
>
> > - end of story for linux
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > 2/ Back on Windows (7)
>
> >
>
> > - setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe (ok)
>
> > - (cmd) easy_install.exe pip : AttributeError : 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clone'
>
> >
>
> > Well, I think I'm starting to feel less and less enthusiastic about python... I didn't suspect it would be so difficult to write a basic doc file :)
>
>
>
> "pip" goes with "distribute", not "setuptools".
>
>
>
> http://packages.python.org/distribute/
>
>
>
> Stefan

Ok, I will try it next time then, thank you.

In the end, I found a way around. I generated an html file, then, converted it to a doc file.
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cyrille.leroux at gmail

Jul 31, 2012, 8:51 AM

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