Question

I made a python program which uses the sysconfig module. How can I allow python users with a python version lower than python2.7 to also run that program? I can not find this library in PyPI.

Before I had also used argparse and this was also not installed by default in python versions lower than python2.7. But I could just add it in my requirements file because it can be downloaded using pip.

Answer 1

You’ll need to write a version of your code that works without sysconfig – your code would look something like this:

try:
    import sysconfig
    HAS_SYSCONFIG = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_SYSCONFIG = False

...

if HAS_SYSCONFIG:
    # sysconfig code here
else:
    # compatibility code here

You could also try backporting sysconfig to an earlier version of python and including it with your script, but that may be more work than it’s worth.