Dear GDAL experts,<br><br>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):<br>
- IPython<br> - SQLAlchemy<br> - xlrd (module to read Excel files)<br><br>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 (<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/msg04681.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/msg04681.html</a>) I am trying to build this toolset with OSGeo4W.<br>
<br>I also tried assembling the toolset using just a standard Python 2.5 installation (<a href="http://python.org">python.org</a>), 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 (<a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL/">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL/</a>). 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).<br>
<br>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).<br>
<br>Thank you,<br><br>Aleksey<br><br>