How to install python-dateutil on Windows?
Question:
I’m trying to convert some date/times to UTC, which I thought would be dead simple in Python – batteries included, right? Well, it would be simple except that Python (2.6) doesn’t include any tzinfo classes. No problem, a quick search turns up python-dateutil which should do exactly what I need.
The problem is that I need to install it on Windows. I was able to upack the .tar.gz2 distribution using 7-zip, but now I’m left with a collection of files and no guidance on how to proceed. When I try to run setup.py I get the error “No module named setuptools”.
Answers:
Looks like the setup.py uses easy_install (i.e. setuptools). Just install the setuptools package and you will be all set.
To install setuptools in Python 2.6, see the answer to this question.
Why didn’t someone tell me I was being a total noob? All I had to do was copy the dateutil directory to someplace in my Python path, and it was good to go.
Using setup from distutils.core instead of setuptools in setup.py worked for me, too:
#from setuptools import setup
from distutils.core import setup
If dateutil is missing install it via:
pip install python-dateutil
Or on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-dateutil
Install from the “Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages”
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-dateutil
Pretty much has every package you would need.
Just run command prompt as administrator and type this in.
easy_install python-dateutil
You could also change your PYTHONPATH:
$ python -c 'import dateutil'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named dateutil
$
$ PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.5-py2.6.egg":"${PYTHONPATH}"
$ export PYTHONPATH
$ python -c 'import dateutil'
$
Where /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.5-py2.6.egg is the place dateutil was installed in my box (centos using sudo yum install python-dateutil15)
First confirm that you have in C:/python##/Lib/Site-packages/ a folder dateutil, perhaps you download it, you should already have pip,matplotlib, six##,,confirm you have installed dateutil by— go to the cmd, cd /python, you should have a folder /Scripts. cd to Scripts, then type –pip install python-dateutil —
—-This applies to windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, Python 3.4——
If you are offline and have untared the package, you can use command prompt.
Navigate to the untared folder and run:
python setup.py install
It is a little tricky for people who is not used to command prompt. All you have
to do is open the directory where python is installed (C:Python27 by default) and open the command prompt there (shift + right click and select open command window here) and then type :
python -m pip install python-dateutil
Hope that helps.
I followed several suggestions in this list without success. Finally got it installed on Windows using this method: I extracted the zip file and placed the folders under my python27 folder. In a DOS window, I navigated to the installed root folder from extracting the zip file (python-dateutil-2.6.0), then issued this command:
.python setup.py install
Whammo-bammo it all worked.
I’m trying to convert some date/times to UTC, which I thought would be dead simple in Python – batteries included, right? Well, it would be simple except that Python (2.6) doesn’t include any tzinfo classes. No problem, a quick search turns up python-dateutil which should do exactly what I need.
The problem is that I need to install it on Windows. I was able to upack the .tar.gz2 distribution using 7-zip, but now I’m left with a collection of files and no guidance on how to proceed. When I try to run setup.py I get the error “No module named setuptools”.
Looks like the setup.py uses easy_install (i.e. setuptools). Just install the setuptools package and you will be all set.
To install setuptools in Python 2.6, see the answer to this question.
Why didn’t someone tell me I was being a total noob? All I had to do was copy the dateutil directory to someplace in my Python path, and it was good to go.
Using setup from distutils.core instead of setuptools in setup.py worked for me, too:
#from setuptools import setup
from distutils.core import setup
If dateutil is missing install it via:
pip install python-dateutil
Or on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-dateutil
Install from the “Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages”
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-dateutil
Pretty much has every package you would need.
Just run command prompt as administrator and type this in.
easy_install python-dateutil
You could also change your PYTHONPATH:
$ python -c 'import dateutil'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named dateutil
$
$ PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.5-py2.6.egg":"${PYTHONPATH}"
$ export PYTHONPATH
$ python -c 'import dateutil'
$
Where /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.5-py2.6.egg is the place dateutil was installed in my box (centos using sudo yum install python-dateutil15)
First confirm that you have in C:/python##/Lib/Site-packages/ a folder dateutil, perhaps you download it, you should already have pip,matplotlib, six##,,confirm you have installed dateutil by— go to the cmd, cd /python, you should have a folder /Scripts. cd to Scripts, then type –pip install python-dateutil —
—-This applies to windows 7 Ultimate 32bit, Python 3.4——
If you are offline and have untared the package, you can use command prompt.
Navigate to the untared folder and run:
python setup.py install
It is a little tricky for people who is not used to command prompt. All you have
to do is open the directory where python is installed (C:Python27 by default) and open the command prompt there (shift + right click and select open command window here) and then type :
python -m pip install python-dateutil
Hope that helps.
I followed several suggestions in this list without success. Finally got it installed on Windows using this method: I extracted the zip file and placed the folders under my python27 folder. In a DOS window, I navigated to the installed root folder from extracting the zip file (python-dateutil-2.6.0), then issued this command:
.python setup.py install
Whammo-bammo it all worked.