Python Eggs on Google App Engine

Question

Usually I would use virtualenv and pip for deployment of web applications. With Google App Engine this doesn\'t work, because all import s

Answer 1

If you use easy_install instead of pip you can run it with the --install-dir argument to specify a non-default installation directory.

Answer 2

It seems manually adding the virtualenv to sys.path solves the problem for me at the moment:

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), 'dev.env/lib/python2.5/site-packages/'))