Installation Guidelines: Windows - Developer (Manual)

If you are a Developer running Windows and wishing to install Python & all dependent libraries manually then this is the right page for you.

Install Python

2.7 is currently recommended. (2.6 works for all core functionality, but doesn't allow you to use the S3Cube pivot table functions)

NB 32-bit Python should be used even on 64-bit Windows:

• ​http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/python-2.7.2.msi

Install Python Libraries

Windows users should generally use Windows Installers, where available

Mandatory

• ​lxml for XML export/import: ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/l/lxml/lxml-2.3.win32-py2.7.exe
• ​Shapely for GIS Features
• ​ReportLab for PDF output
• ​PIL Python Image Library for PDFs
• ​dateutil
  • No Windows installer, so install by unzipping, opening a command line inside the folder & python setup.py install

Optional

• ​xlwt for XLS output
• ​numpy required by matplotlib
• ​SciPy required for S3Cube
• ​MatPlotLib for charts (used in the Survey application & for the S3Cube pivottable reports)
• ​setuptools for installing tweepy
• ​tweepy python library to interact with twitter
• ​Pyserial for SMS Features
• ​PyTZ for Timezone awareness
• ​PyWURFL for Browser Capabilities (unused currently)
• MySQL for Python
• PostgreSQL for Python