How to install Rackspace Python SDK for cloud

The full summary of all posts for API Rackspace challenge can be found here:
Rackspace api-challenge summary

The Python SDK is available here. It is very simple to install it in any modern Linux distribution.

 
aptitude install python-pip
pip install pyrax

In Windows we need to do couple things more.

• Download and install the distribute Python package

Use your browser to download the file or if you want to use curl in Windows take a look at  this instructions Powershell as Bash substitute on Windows. From powershell it can look like this:


 
PS C:\Users\radoslaw> curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
PS C:\Users\radoslaw> python distribute_setup.py



• Download and install the pip Python package 

 
PS C:\Users\radoslaw> curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
PS C:\Users\radoslaw> python get-pip.py



• Check that you can execute pip from command line

If you have to modify your PATH variable this blog can be helpful.


 
PS C:\Users\radoslaw> pip

Usage:
  pip  [options]
...



• Lastly install pyrax SDK module and test it 

If everything went fine you should see similar output.


 
PS C:\Users\radoslaw> python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:24:47) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyrax
>>> pyrax
<module 'pyrax' from 'c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyrax\__init__.pyc'>

References

1. http://docs.rackspace.com/sdks/guide/content/intro.html
2. https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/installing_pyrax.md
3. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute/#distribute-setup-py