[gdal-dev] Installing additional packages for python in OSGeo4W

[Aleksey Naumov]

Dear GDAL experts,

What is the best/recommended way to install additional python packages for
the Python bundled with OSGeo4W (currently 2.5.2)? Specifically, I am
looking for the following packages (which do not seem to be available via
the OSGeo4W installer; neither should they be, necessarily):
  - IPython
  - SQLAlchemy
  - xlrd (module to read Excel files)

I am still struggling with assembling on my Windows machine a complete
Python/GDAL toolchain (python, GDAL utility programs and python bindings),
which could also include other add-on modules (such as those listed above).
As per responses (thank you!) to my earlier posting (
http://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/msg04681.html) I am
trying to build this toolset with OSGeo4W.

I also tried assembling the toolset using just a standard Python 2.5
installation (python.org), combined with easy_install for xlrd and
sqlalchemy. However, I could not install GDAL, neither via easy_install
(could not compile since I did not have Visual Studio 2003; even though I
had VS 2005), nor following instructions on the GDAL page at PYPI (
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL/). On the PYPI page the link to "GDAL
Python Bindings" points to the page itself, and I have no idea where to get
the actual download (expected to see something like
GDAL-1.6.0.win32-py2.5.exe).

So, any advice on how to make all these pieces work together is greatly
appreciated. Once again, the required pieces are: Windows, Python 2.5, GDAL
(utility programs & python bindings), IPython, SQLAlchemy, xlrd (+ ability
to install other add-on packages).

Thank you,

Aleksey
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