Case-sensitive package names in pip under OSX

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20510464

  •  31-08-2022
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Question

I'm trying to use pip (which I got via Anaconda; see version information below) to install a Python package called HTML.py

There are at least two unusual features about this package's name:

  1. It ends with ".py"
  2. It uses capital letters

I don't seem to be able to install the package. Running pip install HTML.py doesn't work, and if I drop the .py pip goes ahead and installs a different package instead, this one named html.

Can I get pip to install the package I want for me?

63-176-57-107:~ kuzzooroo$ pip search HTML.py
HTML.py                   - A Python module to easily generate HTML code
                            (tables, lists, ...). See
                            http://www.decalage.info/python/html for more
                            information.
odt2html.py               - Basic .odt to .html command line converter
63-176-57-107:~ kuzzooroo$ pip install HTML.py
Downloading/unpacking HTML.py
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement HTML.py
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for HTML.py
Storing complete log in /Users/kuzzooroo/.pip/pip.log
63-176-57-107:~ kuzzooroo$ pip install HTML
Downloading/unpacking HTML
  Downloading html-1.16.tar.gz
  Running setup.py egg_info for package HTML

Installing collected packages: HTML
  Running setup.py install for HTML

Successfully installed HTML

Here's what version of Anaconda I'm using:

Python 2.7.6 |Anaconda 1.8.0 (x86_64)| (default, Nov 11 2013, 10:49:09) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Imported NumPy 1.7.1, SciPy 0.13.0, Matplotlib 1.3.1
Type "scientific" for more details.

BTW, pip works fine for other packages for me.

Was it helpful?

Solution

I don't think it is a problem with pip. If you go to the PyPi page for HTML.py (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/HTML.py/0.04) that leads you to a download page of http://www.decalage.info/python/html .

However, there is no downloadable package on that page, and the author's BitBucket account doesn't list an HTML.py repo.

I think that for whatever reason, the author has pulled this package but hasn't updated PyPi.

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