Installing Pysnap

Question

I'm trying to install the Pysnap package for Python.

The website says to run "python setup.py install" using setuptools. I've tried installing setuptools but it just doesn't seem to work.

So how do I install the package?

SOLUTION: Worked after running "setup.py install" instead of "python setup.py install"

What does "it just doesn't seem to work" mean? You needtotellus. — Gerrat, Jan 13 '15 at 18:47
it is not a proper Python package. There is a [pull requests that tries to make it so](https://github.com/niothiel/snapchat-python/pull/3) — jfs, Jan 13 '15 at 18:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '15 at 18:48

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Go to this link and unzip the package, then put it in your LIB folder in your python installation

answered Jan 13 '15 at 18:48

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '15 at 20:50

When you download and use python you are recommended to install a few other 'features' setuptools and pip are the most common. Depending on your IDE, I recommend using PyCharm as it automatically installs those for you. As for installing Pysnap package you must cd to your directory where setup.py is found and type in

python setup.py install

that should do it.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 13 '15 at 21:15

If setup requires setuptools, install pip by saving this python file then running it. Pip relies on setuptools so the installation will take care of it for you. All you have to do now is download the framework as a zip from Github, extract it, and use the command line to run python setup.py install.

Installing Pysnap

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