virtualenv是用于干净地安装第三方库的事实上的Python标准。请在此处阅读更多信息:
http://www.virtualenv.org/
用法示例:daniel@redhotcar:~/tmp$ virtualenv myenv
New python executable in myenv/bin/python
Installing distribute....................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip...............done.
daniel@redhotcar:~/tmp$ cd myenv/
daniel@redhotcar:~/tmp/myenv$ bin/pip install mechanize
Downloading/unpacking mechanize
Downloading mechanize-0.2.5.zip (445Kb): 445Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package mechanize
Installing collected packages: mechanize
Running setup.py install for mechanize
Successfully installed mechanize
Cleaning up...
daniel@redhotcar:~/tmp/myenv$ bin/python
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 4 2011, 20:06:09)
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mechanize
>>> mechanize
>>>
在Ubuntu上,通过apt-get install python-virtualenv安装virtualenv