Question

I had a custom script programmed and it is using the authors own module that is hosted on Google code in a Mercurial repo. I understand how to clone the repo but this will just stick the source into a folder on my computer. Is there a proper way to add the module into my python install to make it available for my projects? (e.g. with modules hosted on pypi you can use virtualenv and pip to install).

Thanks
Dave O

Answer 1

In exactly the same way. Just pass the address of the repo to pip install, using the -e parameter:

pip install -e hg+http://code.google.com/path/to/repo