install a module without pip/easy_install or "python setup.py install"

Question

I am trying to install the ptyprocess module: https://github.com/pexpect/ptyprocess.

I cannot do a "pip install ptyprocess" as my pip is blocked by ssl issues on the server.

Also, I cannot clone the above repository and run a "python setup.py install" since there is no setup.py in the repository; instead there is a pyproject.toml which requires "pip install pyproject.yoml", but again, this is reliant on pip which is blocked.

How then can I install this module?

p.s. I've installed other modules on my server via github, but they have the desired "setup.py" and not "pyproject.toml", therefore I was able to run "python setup.py install" successfully.

Answer 1

To install a module copy the pytprocess folder (or whatever folder contains the topmost __init__.py) to your site-packages (usually in {python location}\lib\site-packages) directory. You may still need to manually install the dependencies, (in this case flit) as well. Note this only works if the package is pure python.