I installed embedded python from here, titled “Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file”, but it does not have pip installed, it does not have site-packages either, when I try to do python get-pip.py it failed to run because this file has import pip in it. So how can I install pip within a embedded python environment.
Traceback (most recent call last): File “.getpip.py”, line 20061, in main() File “.getpip.py”, line 194, in main bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir) File “.getpip.py”, line 82, in bootstrap import pip File “”, line 961, in _find_and_load File “”, line 950, in _find_and_load_unlocked File “”, line 646, in _load_unlocked File “”, line 616, in _load_backward_compatible
The directory structure is:
Directory: C:Downloadspython-3.6.1rc1-embed-win32Mode LastWriteTime Length Name---- ------------- ------ -----a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 157344 pyexpat.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 97952 python.exe-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 58016 python3.dll-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 3263648 python36.dll-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 2209284 python36.zip-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 79 python36._pth-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 96416 pythonw.exe-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 23200 select.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 866464 sqlite3.dll-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 895648 unicodedata.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 83784 vcruntime140.dll-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 24224 winsound.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 45216 _asyncio.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 77984 _bz2.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 101536 _ctypes.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 215712 _decimal.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 156832 _elementtree.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 1042592 _hashlib.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 183456 _lzma.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 32416 _msi.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 25760 _multiprocessing.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 33952 _overlapped.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 61600 _socket.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 64160 _sqlite3.pyd-a---- 3/4/2017 7:26 PM 1458848 _ssl.pydAdvertisement
Answer
I recently ran into the same issue. I checked the documentation for pip and they seem to say that this use case isn’t supported etc. But anyhow, here is my hack for getting the modules to work.
I installed, and by that I mean unzipped embedded python into a directory called d:python. I assumed that the modules are going to live in that same directory.
First, to install the pip module, I needed to save the extraceted files. I changed the get-pip.py using a text editor that supported unix line terminators by removing the rmtree lines that remove the temporary and unpacked tree from the blob containted in the get-pip.py file.
I changed both locations, but only the last one was needed. The line that I changed in two locations read
shutil.rmtree(tmpdir, ignore_errors=True)and I modified it thus (I didn’t want to bother with the python indentation blocks):
print('shutil.rmtree(tmpdir, ignore_errors=True)')I now ran my python D:pythonpython.exe on the modified get-pip.py and found the temporary directory where the files were unzipped to.
I copied this directory, (check that it contains a main.py) file into the python install D:pythonpip (this is where I wanted my modules to live), ensuring that the D:pythonpip directory contained the main.py file.
The pip module is now installed in the python directory, but you need to hack pip further to remove the exception above. I did this by changing the locations.py file (in my case located in D:pythonpiplocations.py) to return the bin_py and bin_user locations of D:python.
ie:
86 if WINDOWS:.bin_py = 'd:/python'bin_user = 'd:/python'I had to change the user_dir for pip to somewhere that would persist on this drive that was shared across multiple VMs.
The pip module now runs fine, eg
d:pythonpython.exe -m pip …