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My plugin requires support of other python module

#1

I’m trying to make a plugin but my python code needs some plugin like pandas to be installed in Python. By default the python that comes with the sublime doesn’t have it.
How can I install in ST’s python?
And can my plugin install this module automatically if somebody loads this plugin and pandas module is not present on their ST’s python?

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#2

Unfortunately it’s not on https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel/blob/master/repository/dependencies.json. So that means you have to prepare following python modules by yourself:

  • dateutil
  • numpy
  • pandas
  • pytz
  • six

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Presuming your plugin depends on ST 4 with the py38 plugin host.
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You are the only plugin user

Install Pandas into Lib/python38 will work.

The path of Lib/python38 can be obtained by executing

from pathlib import Path; str((Path(sublime.packages_path()) / '../Lib/python38').resolve())

in Sublime Text’s console.

To prepare modules, you can either

  • Do this manually. Go to pypi to download each module with cp38 and the correct CPU architecture and decompress them into Lib/python38. For example, this is the whole collection for Win64: https://www5.zippyshare.com/v/SN9G2ksb/file.html

  • If you have Python 3.8 with pip installed on your local machine. You can just use pip to install modules into Lib/python38 via

    $ python -m pip install -t=PATH_OF_LIB_PYTHON38 pandas

You want to make it for other people

You have 2 choices. Either of them are unlikely to happen.

  1. Ask your user to go through steps described in You are the only plugin user.

  2. Vendor it.

    • Numpy, which is compiled into native codes. That means you have to prepare various versions of your plugin depending on target CPU architectures.
    • This will make your plugin quite big. Maybe you don’t care though.

Eventually, you can do a quick test in Sublime Text’s console to check whether Pandas is usable.

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> pd.__version__
'1.5.3'
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