How to install the salesforce python library from github

Question

I downloaded the simple-salesforce zip file from github because i want to connect to salesforce using python. I am a bit lost how to install the library. I am just used to doing pip install but have never really manually downloaded a package and installed it. How should I go about it? Assuming I want to install the version in github and not pypi.org.

Answer 1

This is assuming you have used git clone somerepo.git

Navigate into somerepo. There you should see some files including setup.py and/or a folder called dist which contains .whl and/or .tar.gz files

If you are using setup.py , you can use

python setup.py install

Which should install the package for you. Otherwise, if you are using a wheel or tarball in dist you can pip install that wheel using

python -m pip install dist/file.tar.gz`

or

python -m pip install dist/file.whl