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Passing arguments to python setup.py install_requires list

I used pip to install PIL. Installation requires two additional arguments. Thus, the command to install looks something like this.

pip install PIL --allow-external PIL --allow-unverified PIL

I need to add a PIL package to my setup.py file. Adding PIL to the list install_requires

installs PIL, but it doesn't work as I need to install PIL with additional arguments.

So how can I add PIL to a list install_requires

with additional arguments?

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There is currently no way to specify additional arguments install_requires

in setup.py. But I solved the problem of installing dependencies using global-options

by subclassing the class setuptools.command.install

and overriding its method run()

, for example the following code -



from setuptools import setup
from setuptools.command.install import install
from subprocess import call


class CustomInstall(install):
    def run(self):
        install.run(self)
        call(['pip', 'install', 'PIL', '--allow-external', 'PIL', '--allow-unverified', 'PIL'])

setup( ...
      cmdclass={
          'install': CustomInstall,
      },
)
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Just replace PIL with pillow (in your install_requires). This is a PIL fork with fixes, py3k support and proper hosting. You don't need to change your code.



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