Google Earth KML: best module? (simplekml installation issues)

[Wizardofozzie]

I'm trying to edit and create Google Earth KML (keyhole markup language, based on XML); on Windows with iPython I usually use simplekml, however I'm having a tough time trying to install this, as the tar.gz doesn't want to open when using downloadista.pypi("simplekml", "1.2.8").

Any suggestions for using Pythonista with KML files would be greatly appreciated

[omz]

The simplekml package is distributed as a Zip file (not tar.gz), maybe pypista can't handle that?

Anyway, you could try this simple installer script:

import urllib
import zipfile
import os
import shutil

urllib.urlretrieve('https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/simplekml/simplekml-1.2.8.zip', 'simplekml.zip')
with zipfile.ZipFile('simplekml.zip') as z:
	z.extractall()
shutil.copytree('simplekml-1.2.8/simplekml', os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/site-packages/simplekml'))
shutil.rmtree('simplekml-1.2.8')

The module seems to work, but I haven't tested it extensively.

[Wizardofozzie]

I forgot to report back; the script does work, but there are a few issues with simplekml (mainly because or recursion limit and it doesn't like the unwieldy default directory length, I'm told, though these are iOS limitations, not Pythonista😉)

Thanks for the input, much appreciated