Python Subversion wrapper library
easy-install, python, svn
Solution
The library referred to by this documentation is the SWIG-based wrappers which build and ship with Subversion itself. Thus -- if your operating system's package is `subversion`, look for a `subversion-python` package to ship alongside it. If you're building subversion from source, you'll want to use the `--with-python` configure option for the bindings to be built alongside.
An alternative (with a quite different API) is the 3rd-party wrapper `pysvn`. These are better-documented and are easier to use, but are also less efficient in terms of runtime performance (they don't implement all the connection reuse capabilities and such of the underdocumented "official" bindings).
Problem
In Subversion's documentation there's an example of using Subversion from Python ``` #!/usr/bin/python import svn.fs, svn.core, svn.repos def crawl_filesystem_dir(root, directory): """Recursively crawl DIRECTORY under ROOT in the filesystem, and return a list of all the paths at or below DIRECTORY.""" # Get the directory entries for DIRECTORY. entries = svn.fs.svn_fs_dir_entries(root, directory) ``` When I run this code I get an import error: ``` $ python crawl.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "crawl.py", line 7, in <module> import svn.fs, svn.core, svn.repos ImportError: No module named svn.fs ``` This means I'm missing the library `svn`. I tried to install the package, but the Python package manager can't find it. ``` $ pip install svn Downloading/unpacking svn Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement svn No distributions at all found for svn ``` So, how do I install this library?