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Enthought Canopy ships without placing python-config in the path and a homebrew formula I'm trying to install wants to rely on the answers it gets from python-config. How should I resolve this? Some answers I've considered:

  1. Is there a chance this is provided by a package I don't have installed? If yes, install it and get on with my life.
  2. Roll my own python-config and yell at Enthought about it
  3. Revise the homebrew formula to use a more reliable way of interrogating how to build against python

Commentary, advice, and other options would be welcome!

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You should be able to install python-config using pip. This KB article should help you install it.

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python-config is not an installable package. It's not in pypi and pip install python-config fails on "Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement python-config". –  Tim Smith Jun 6 '13 at 3:43
I think, pypi.python.org/pypi/config is the package that you are looking for. pip install config should work. –  punchagan Jun 6 '13 at 6:52
It is not, and it does not. That config package offers a facility for parsing configuration files. –  Tim Smith Jun 7 '13 at 7:38
Yes, sorry. My bad. –  punchagan Jun 7 '13 at 10:39

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