Installing Twitter Python Module

Question

I am trying to install Twitter-Python and I am just not getting it. According to everything I've read this should be easy. I have read all that stuff about easy_install, python setup.py install, command lines, etc, but I just don't get it. I downloaded the "twitter-1.9.4.tar.gz", so I now have the 'twitter-1.9.4' folder in my root 'C:\Python27' and tried running

>>> python setup.py install

in IDLE... and that's not working. I was able to install a module for yahoo finance and all I had to do was put the code in my 'C:\Python27\Lib' folder.

How are these different and is there a REALLY BASIC step-by-step for installing packages?

Answer 1

1) Run CMD as administrator
2) Type this:
set path=%path%;C:\Python27\
3) Download python-twitter, if you haven't already did, this is the link I recommend:
https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
4) Download PeaZip in order to extract it:
http://peazip.org/
5) Install PeaZip, go to where you have downloaded python-twitter, right click, extract it with PeaZip.
6) Copy the link to the python-twitter folder after extraction, which should be something like this:
C:\Users\KiDo\Downloads\python-twitter-1.1.tar\dist\python-twitter-1.1
7) Go back to CMD, and type:
cd python-twitter location, or something like this:
cd C:\Users\KiDo\Downloads\python-twitter-1.1.tar\dist\python-twitter-1.1
8) Now type this in CMD:
python setup.py install

And it should work fine, to confirm it open IDLE, and type:

import twitter

Now you MAY get another error, like this:

>>> import twitter Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twitter.py", line 37, in <module> import requests ImportError: No module named requests

Then you have to do kinda same steps in order to download the module requests.