Adding 'install_requires' to setup.py when making a python package

Question

To make a python package, in setup.py, I have the following:

setup(
    name='TowelStuff',
    version='0.1.0',
    author='J. Random Hacker',
    author_email='[email protected]',
    packages=['towelstuff', 'towelstuff.test'],
    scripts=['bin/stowe-towels.py','bin/wash-towels.py'],
    url='http://pypi.python.org/pypi/TowelStuff/',
    license='LICENSE.txt',
    description='Useful towel-related stuff.',
    long_description=open('README.txt').read(),
    install_requires=[
        "Django >= 1.1.1",
        "caldav == 0.1.4",
    ],
)

So I remade that with my own package description and information. When I build it though I get the following warning:

distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option:

Does install_requires work only on certain versions?

Possible answer at stackoverflow.com/questions/8295644 He said switching to Python 2.7.2 fixed the problem. — enderskill
– enderskill, Commented Mar 21, 2012 at 18:36

Robert T. McGibbon · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-20 07:44:29Z

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You need to be using setuptools instead of distutils.

Near the top of your script, try replacing

from distutils.core import setup

with

from setuptools import setup

answered Nov 20, 2012 at 7:44

Robert T. McGibbon

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Jim Garrison Over a year ago

Even better, you can import from setuptools, and if that raises an ImportError import from distutils.core instead.

Yauhen Yakimovich · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-25 10:19:08Z

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try:
    from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup

answered Jul 25, 2013 at 10:19

Yauhen Yakimovich

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Eamonn Kenny Over a year ago

I tried this when installing jip for jython and found that it doesn't work. This piece of code you mention is exactly the code at the top of the setup.py and I get the warning message method by Niek.

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