Installation guide¶

Supported Python versions¶

PyGoChook requires Python 3.7+ (only tested on 3.7)

Installing PyGoChook¶

You can install PyGoChook and its dependencies from PyPI with:

pip install pygochook

We strongly recommend that you install PyGoChook in a dedicated virtualenv, to avoid conflicting with your system packages.

For more detailed and platform specifics instructions, as well as troubleshooting information, read on.

Things that are good to know¶

PyGoChook is written in pure Python and depends on a few key Python packages:

aiohttp, a request library with asyncio support

Using a virtual environment (recommended)¶

TL;DR: We recommend installing PyGoChook inside a virtual environment on all platforms.

Python packages can be installed either globally (a.k.a system wide), or in user-space. We do not recommend installing PyGoChook system wide.

Instead, we recommend that you install PyGoChook within a so-called “virtual environment” (venv). Virtual environments allow you to not conflict with already-installed Python system packages (which could break some of your system tools and scripts), and still install packages normally with pip (without sudo and the likes).

Once you have created a virtual environment, you can install PyGoChook inside it with pip, just like any other Python package.