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PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.6, Windows Installer<\/a> (1,006 KB)<\/p>\n PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.7, Windows Installer<\/a> (1,012 KB)<\/p>\n So you are a Windows user and you want to install Python\/XML (A.K.A. PyXML)<\/a>, but there is no version on Sourceforge<\/a> since November 2004, when Python 2.4 was all the rage. It isn’t being maintained any more.<\/p>\n So you turn to your Python friends, and they say “Oh don’t use that. There are much better XML libraries now.” And you say “But the library I want to use uses ZSI<\/a> which uses PyXML, and ZSI isn’t being maintained either.”<\/p>\n And your Python friends say “ZSI? Are you using SOAP? 2001 just called and they want their over-hyped protocol stack back.” And you say “Yeah, but I need to access a server that only provides SOAP, and someone has written a wrapper layer to it which, surprise, surprise, is no longer being maintained. Besides, the whole ‘the past called’ gag is a bit dated too, isn’t it?”<\/p>\n So they say “Ah, just install it with easy_install<\/a>” and you look at them funny, because you are a Windows programmer, and they are Linux programmers, and that’s not the way you do things around here.<\/p>\n Either you decide to give it a go, or you decide to download the source directly and run ‘setup.py build’, and either way it complains about ‘vcvarsall.bat’ being missing, which is its way of saying “How am I supposed to compile this C code? Don’t you have Microsoft Visual Studio installed?” to which you say “No, I am a Python programmer now! The eighties called, and asked for their C compiler back, and I gave it to them.” but it isn’t listening to you, and neither are your Linux friends, because they don’t want to associate with someone who doesn’t have a C compiler built in to the operating system.<\/p>\n Then you hear a rumour about a free Visual Studio command-line compiler, and a free C compiler called gcc or MINGW<\/a> or something. Sounds too hard, so you yell in frustration “All I want is a nice Windows installer with pre-built binaries? Hasn’t anyone on the internet built one for me?” and your Linux friends who were pretending they couldn’t hear you finally turn around and say “Wait, you are going to run a binary you just found somewhere on the net? Are you crazy? It could have all sorts of nasty code in there.” and you just look at them funny because that’s just the way you do things around here.<\/p>\n If this is you, I have a solution! I have built the PyXML distribution, ready to just install, linked at the top and bottom of this post. If you don’t trust me (and frankly, you shouldn’t), I have provided instructions on how to do it yourself.<\/p>\n (Much credit to psems’s instructions in this post.<\/a>)<\/p>\n First, download PyXML 0.8.4 source<\/a>. Extract it (with your favourite archive tool; I use 7zip<\/a>) and extracted into a temp directory.<\/p>\n Now, follow these instructions heavily cribbed from this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n \n1. Visit the MINGW<\/a> sourceforge page: <\/p>\n 2. Download & Run: Automated MinGW Installer (make sure you check the base, g++ and Make)<\/p>\n 3. <Snipped><\/p>\n 4. Create (or edit): C:\\Python26\\Lib\\distutils\\distutils.cfg and add the following 2 lines: <\/p>\n Okay, now go the command line, and get yourself into the temp directory.<\/p>\n Add MINGW to your path temporarily by typing If Python 2.6.x isn’t already your path, do a similar command like: (Or similarly for Python 2.7.x)<\/p>\n If you just want to install it, type:<\/p>\n This time there should be lots of output but no errors.<\/p>\n If you want to do what I did, and create a distributable installer type:<\/p>\n The first one contains an exe, which is what you wanted. The second one creates a zip, which some people prefer. You will find them in the dist subdirectory.<\/p>\n Once you have the exe, you know how to install it – good ol’ double-click! How embarrassing for the Linux people that they have to type<\/em> “easy_install”, which means it is already far too hard for us Windows folks!<\/p>\n Check it worked by typing starting python and typing PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.6, Windows Installer<\/a> (1,006 KB)<\/p>\n PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.6, ZIP archive<\/a> (1,310 KB)<\/p>\n PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.7, Windows Installer<\/a> (1,012 KB)<\/p>\n PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.7, ZIP archive<\/a> (1,316 KB)<\/p>\n It should be obvious, but I am not claiming any ownership of this code. Nor am I offering any warranties. It should be used subject to the copyright notices and licences included, which give credit to the people who actually contributed to the project.<\/p>\n All of the original code is available from Sourceforge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the modern Windows Python programmer, stuck with old libraries:<\/p>\nRambling Version<\/h3>\n
Building It Yourself<\/h4>\n
[build]
\ncompiler=mingw32<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPATH=%PATH%;c:\\mingw\\bin\\<\/code><\/p>\nPATH=%PATH%;c:\\Python26<\/code>, or just type c:\\python26\\python in front of every command below.<\/p>\nsetup.py build<\/code>
\nsetup.py install<\/code><\/p>\nsetup.py bdist_wininst<\/code>
\nsetup.py bdist<\/code><\/p>\nimport xml.dom.ext.reader<\/code>; it shouldn’t give an error.<\/p>\nThe Results<\/h3>\n
Licence<\/h3>\n