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    <p>Regrettably, there's no method to the madness. The name in the <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">package index</a> is independent of the module name you <code>import</code>. Disastrously <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5937739/python-module-name-conflict">some packages share module names</a>. If you install both, your application will break with even odds. (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3113094/error-when-using-gchart-googlecharts-gem-nameerror-uninitialized-constant-g">Ruby has this problem too</a>)</p> <hr> <p>Packaging in Python is generally dire. The root cause is that the language ships without a package manager. Ruby and Nodejs ship with full-featured package managers Gem and Npm, and have nurtured sharing communities centred around GitHub. Npm makes <a href="https://npmjs.org/doc/developers.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">publishing packages</a> as easy as installing them. Nodejs arrived 2009 and already has <a href="https://npmjs.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">14k packages</a>. The venerable Python package index lists 24k. Ruby Gems lists 44k packages.</p> <p>Fortunately, there is one decent package manager for Python, called <a href="http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pip</a>. Pip is inspired by Ruby's Gem, but lacks some vital features (eg. listing packages, and <a href="https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/59" rel="nofollow noreferrer">upgrading en mass</a>). Ironically, Pip itself is <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4750806/how-to-install-pip-on-windows">complicated to install</a>. Installation on the popular 64-bit Windows demands building and installing two packages from source. This is a big ask for anyone new to programming. </p> <p>Python's devs are ignorant of all this frustration because they are seasoned programmers comfortable building from source, and they use Linux distributions with packaged Python modules.</p> <p>Until Python ships with a package manager, thousands of developers will needlessly waste time reinventing the wheel.</p> <hr> <p>Python 3 solves many problems with packaging. There <a href="http://python3wos.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">aren't any packages for Python 3</a>.</p>
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    1. COI sure hope this answer is partially tongue-in-cheek. I keep telling myself parts of this *can't* be serious, but other parts are spot on...
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    2. COIs installing pip on win64 really that bad? I usually just download the setuptools installer then run `easy_install pip`. Though I am using 32bit python, so maybe that's where the difference lies.
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    3. COThat's right. There's no [setuptools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/) installer for 64 bit Python. "Currently, the provided .exe installer does not support 64-bit versions of Python for Windows, due to a distutils installer compatibility issue". I discourage friends from installing 64 bit Python.
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