Installing new packages for WinPython

To install a new package/module under WinPython, double-click on WinPython Command Prompt in the directory where you installed WinPython to open a command prompt window.

At the command prompt window type pip install pkgname where pkgname is the name of the package you wish to install. If the package is already present, you will see the message "requirement already satisfied." E.g.:

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\scripts>pip install tzlocal
Collecting tzlocal
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cb/89/e3687d3ed99bc882793f
82634e9824e62499fdfdc4b1ae39e211c5b05017/tzlocal-1.5.1.tar.gz
Collecting pytz (from tzlocal)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/dc/83/15f7833b70d3e067ca91467ca245bae0f6fe56ddc7451aa0dc5606b120f2/pytz-2018.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (510kB
)
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Installing collected packages: pytz, tzlocal
  Running setup.py install for tzlocal ... done
Successfully installed pytz-2018.4 tzlocal-1.5.1
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' comm
and.

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\scripts>pip install pytz
Requirement already satisfied: pytz in c:\program files (x86)\winpython\python-3
.5.4\lib\site-packages
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' comm
and.

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\scripts>

You can find the installed packages in a python-x.x.x\Lib\site-packages directory, where x.x.x is the Python version number, beneath the one where you installed WinPython. E.g., I can see the tzlocal, and the pytz package that was installed with it, on May 18, 2018 in the directory listing below.

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\scripts>dir "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\python-3.5.4\Lib\site-packages"
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 4445-F6ED

 Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\python-3.5.4\Lib\site-packages

05/18/2018  09:13 PM    <DIR>          .
05/18/2018  09:13 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          Brotli-1.0.2.dist-info
04/05/2018  01:08 PM             1,857 brotli.py
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          cloudpickle
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          cloudpickle-0.5.2.dist-info
04/05/2018  01:07 PM             6,144 clr.pyd
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          dask
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          dask-0.17.2.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          docopt-0.6.2.dist-info
04/05/2018  01:08 PM            19,946 docopt.py
04/05/2018  01:07 PM               126 easy_install.py
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          idlex-1.13.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          idlexlib
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          jedi
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          jedi-0.11.1.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          joblib
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          joblib-0.11.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          locket
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          locket-0.2.0.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          parso
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          parso-0.1.1.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          partd
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          partd-0.3.8.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pip
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pip-9.0.3.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pkg_resources
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          prompt_toolkit
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          prompt_toolkit-1.0.15.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          ptpython
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          ptpython-0.41.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pygments
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          Pygments-2.2.0.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pyodbc-4.0.22.dist-info
04/05/2018  01:07 PM           115,712 pyodbc.cp35-win32.pyd
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pyreadline
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pyreadline-2.0-py3.5.egg-info
04/05/2018  01:07 PM           130,560 Python.Runtime.dll
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          pythonnet-2.4.0.dev0.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          python_snappy-0.5.2.dist-info
05/18/2018  09:13 PM    <DIR>          pytz
05/18/2018  09:13 PM    <DIR>          pytz-2018.4.dist-info
04/05/2018  01:08 PM             2,683 readline.py
04/05/2018  01:06 PM               121 README.txt
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          setuptools
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          setuptools-39.0.1.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          six-1.11.0.dist-info
04/05/2018  01:08 PM            30,888 six.py
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          snappy
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          sqlite_bro
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          sqlite_bro-0.8.11.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          test
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          tlz
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          toolz
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          toolz-0.9.0.dist-info
05/18/2018  09:13 PM    <DIR>          tzlocal
05/18/2018  09:13 PM    <DIR>          tzlocal-1.5.1-py3.5.egg-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          wcwidth
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          wcwidth-0.1.7.dist-info
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          winpython
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          winpython-1.10.20180404.dist-info
04/05/2018  01:08 PM           778,752 _brotli.cp35-win32.pyd
05/12/2018  09:23 PM    <DIR>          __pycache__
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C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\scripts>

If you would like to have the capability to convert Python scripts to executable .exe files that could be run on other Microsoft Windows systems without installing WinPython or some other Python implementation for Windows, you can install PyInstaller to create an executable file from a Python script with

pip install
pyinstaller

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\scripts>pip install pyinstaller
Collecting pyinstaller
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3c/86/909a8c35c5471919b385
4c01f43843d9b5aed0e9948b63e560010f7f3429/PyInstaller-3.3.1.tar.gz (3.5MB)
    100% |################################| 3.5MB 277kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\program files (x86)\winpython\py
thon-3.5.4\lib\site-packages (from pyinstaller)
Collecting pefile>=2017.8.1 (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7e/9b/f99171190f04cd237685
47dd34533b4016bd582842f53cd9fe9585a74c74/pefile-2017.11.5.tar.gz (61kB)
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Collecting macholib>=1.8 (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fd/89/58e160e4c3a010dd85da
b1a43d20d4728be759fbffc1fc78356b344ffe98/macholib-1.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (40kB
)
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Collecting future (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/00/2b/8d082ddfed935f3608cc
61140df6dcbf0edea1bc3ab52fb6c29ae3e81e85/future-0.16.0.tar.gz (824kB)
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Collecting pypiwin32 (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d0/1b/2f292bbd742e369a100c
91faa0483172cd91a1a422a6692055ac920946c5/pypiwin32-223-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting altgraph>=0.15 (from macholib>=1.8->pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fe/fd/f63226be4aeebcac65d5
f7e882bd00c8465ce883c1a4d16b18bd4ae9086e/altgraph-0.15-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32->pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/32/0f/16419ffd63c60b0c1976
14c430eab35360a94154ac1b846b3ee69f8c8061/pywin32-223-cp35-cp35m-win32.whl (8.3MB
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Installing collected packages: future, pefile, altgraph, macholib, pywin32, pypi
win32, pyinstaller
  Running setup.py install for future ... done
  Running setup.py install for pefile ... done
  Running setup.py install for pyinstaller ... done
Successfully installed altgraph-0.15 future-0.16.0 macholib-1.9 pefile-2017.11.5
 pyinstaller-3.3.1 pypiwin32-223 pywin32-223
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' comm
and.

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\scripts>

Once PyInstaller has been installed, you can type

pyinstaller --onefile
pythonscript.py

to create a .exe file that you can copy to another Windows system without needing Python installed on that system (be sure to include the --onefile parameter). E.g., in the following example, I have a Python script, runkey.py, which displays the values within the Windows regisry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run as well as the account name for the key and the time the key was last modified, in the C:\Temp directory. I created an executable .exe file from that script by issuing the command

pyinstaller --onefile c:\temp\runkey.py

in a WinPython Command Prompt window.

C:\Temp>pyinstaller --onefile c:\temp\runkey.py
121 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.3.1
121 INFO: Python: 3.5.4
121 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0
121 INFO: wrote C:\Temp\runkey.spec
121 INFO: UPX is not available.
121 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['c:\\temp', 'C:\\Temp']
121 INFO: checking Analysis
121 INFO: Building Analysis because out00-Analysis.toc is non existent
121 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
121 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
121 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
6215 INFO: running Analysis out00-Analysis.toc
6215 INFO: Adding Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls to dependent assemblies of f
inal executable
  required by C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\python-3.5.4\python.exe
7210 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll dependenc
y of C:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7309 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\
WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7410 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll dependency of 
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7557 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:
\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7658 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll depen
dency of C:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7758 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C
:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7842 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll dependency o
f C:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7943 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\WI
NDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8027 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:
\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8127 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\WI
NDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8212 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\WI
NDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8312 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\
WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8428 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll dependency
 of C:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8513 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll dependency of
 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8613 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\W
INDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8711 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\
WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8813 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:
\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
8914 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll dependency
 of C:\WINDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
9061 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll dependency of C:\W
INDOWS\system32\ucrtbase.dll
9177 INFO: Caching module hooks...
9177 INFO: Analyzing c:\temp\runkey.py
9531 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook   distutils
10433 INFO: Loading module hooks...
10433 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"...
10819 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pytz.py"...
10950 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-lib2to3.py"...
10950 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-clr.py"...
10966 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-sysconfig.py"...
10966 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-distutils.py"...
10966 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
11098 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"...
11098 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pkg_resources.py"...
11900 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook   win32com
12022 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pywintypes.py"...
12385 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pythoncom.py"...
12740 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-win32com.py"...
13326 INFO: Looking for ctypes DLLs
13388 INFO: Analyzing run-time hooks ...
13404 INFO: Including run-time hook 'pyi_rth_pkgres.py'
13404 INFO: Including run-time hook 'pyi_rth_win32comgenpy.py'
13404 INFO: Including run-time hook 'pyi_rth_multiprocessing.py'
13426 INFO: Looking for dynamic libraries
14875 INFO: Looking for eggs
14875 INFO: Using Python library C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\python-3.5.4\p
ython35.dll
14875 INFO: Found binding redirects:
[]
14891 INFO: Warnings written to C:\Temp\build\runkey\warnrunkey.txt
15007 INFO: Graph cross-reference written to C:\Temp\build\runkey\xref-runkey.ht
ml
15108 INFO: checking PYZ
15108 INFO: Building PYZ because out00-PYZ.toc is non existent
15108 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Temp\build\runkey\out00-PYZ.pyz
16233 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Temp\build\runkey\out00-PYZ.pyz comple
ted successfully.
16248 INFO: checking PKG
16248 INFO: Building PKG because out00-PKG.toc is non existent
16248 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) out00-PKG.pkg
20138 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) out00-PKG.pkg completed successfully.
20173 INFO: Bootloader C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPython\python-3.5.4\lib\site-pa
ckages\PyInstaller\bootloader\Windows-32bit\run.exe
20173 INFO: checking EXE
20173 INFO: Building EXE because out00-EXE.toc is non existent
20173 INFO: Building EXE from out00-EXE.toc
20173 INFO: Appending archive to EXE C:\Temp\dist\runkey.exe
20204 INFO: Building EXE from out00-EXE.toc completed successfully.

C:\Temp>

The pyinstaller script created a build and dist subdirectory beneath the directory from which I ran the command. Within the dist subdirectory was the runkey.exe file that I could then copy to another system and run.