Installing python module within code

Question

I need to install a package from PyPi straight within my script. Maybe there's some module or distutils (distribute, pip etc.) feature that allows me to just execute something like pypi.install('requests') and requests will be installed into my virtualenv.

Answer 1

To install a python module within code you can also use something like as follows:-

import pip

def install(package):

if hasattr(pip, 'main'):

pip.main(['install', package])

else:

pip._internal.main(['install', package]) 

if __name__ == '__main__':

install('argh')