FHIR Chat · Python help required

Stream: python

Topic: Python help required

Grahame Grieve (Apr 26 2019 at 04:12):

I want to send some process notifications to Zulip. The Zulip people have told me to use https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api/blob/master/zulip/zulip/send.py#L3 but I don't know how to get that running on windows. I have Python, and I tell it to run that python code, and I get ModuleNotFound 'zulip' - presumably I have to do something but I don't know what...

Grahame Grieve (Apr 26 2019 at 04:12):

python c:\tools\zulip-api\zulip\zulip\send.py

Pascal Pfiffner (Apr 26 2019 at 04:14):

It looks like you need the complete "zulip" package for this script to run (it imports that in line 31). So you either download the whole repo and configure it, or you install the package via PIP.

Grahame Grieve (Apr 26 2019 at 04:15):

i ddi download the whole repo but I don't know what 'configure it' means, nor do I know what 'install the package via PIP

Grahame Grieve (Apr 26 2019 at 04:15):

means. Which should I do?

Pascal Pfiffner (Apr 26 2019 at 04:15):

PIP is Python's preferred package manager, I'm sure you'll find tons of tutorials on how to get set up with it on Windows. I'd recommend trying that.

Pascal Pfiffner (Apr 26 2019 at 04:16):

Once you have PIP installed, you do pip install zulip and you're good to go.

Pascal Pfiffner (Apr 26 2019 at 04:16):

If you encounter something called virtualenv, set that up, too. This will set up mini environments contained in the directory you choose to, rather than install stuff systemwide.

Pascal Pfiffner (Apr 26 2019 at 04:18):

pip is already installed if you are using Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4 downloaded from python.org or if you are working in a Virtual Environment created by virtualenv or pyvenv. Just make sure to upgrade pip.