cibw-install-pythons 0.1.1

Unofficial installer for cibuildwheel's Python versions.

cibw-install-pythons

This is an unofficial script for installing the Python versions used by cibuildwheel. Currently, only macOS is supported.

This script is intended for use in CI environments only. It installs CPython versions system-wide, and there is no easy way to change that behavior because the CPython pkg files used by cibuildwheel cannot be relocated upon installation. If you run this script on your development machine, you will likely break something.

Installation

python -m pip install cibw-install-pythons

Usage

CI=1 python -m cibw-install-pythons macos

If the CI=1 variable is not provided, cibuildwheel aborts by default to avoid damaging systems not in CI environments.

CPython is always installed system-wide. PyPy and GraalPy are installed by default in a cache under your $HOME directory. To change where these Python versions are installed, use the CIBW_CACHE_PATH environment variable.

For example, to install in a system-wide cache,

CI=1 CIBW_CACHE_PATH=/Library/Caches/cibuildwheel python \
                                                  -m cibw-install-pythons macos