Install Third Party Libs To Be Available From Within And Without The Google App Engine Dev Server

The official documentation for Google App Engine with python recommends using a virtualenv and installing third party libs into a subdirectory of the project root: $ source /path/t

Solution 1:

I follow a variation of the same steps but with

$ ln -s {virtualenv}/lib/python2.7/site-packages lib

This way a pip install in the virtualenv automatically goes to the lib directory as well.

Every pip install would then be available to the virtualenv's python and to the dev_appserver without supplying the target folder to make testing things bearable. Eg.:

$ pip install sqlalchemy