I am VERY new to python. I used libcurl with no problems and used pyCurl once in the past. Now i want to set it up on my machine and dev. However i have no idea how to do it. I rather not DL libcirl files and compile that along with pycurl, i want to know the simplest method. I have libcurl installed on my machine.
i'm on windows, i tried DLing the sources and use pycurl setup script, i had no luck.
Depends on platform. Here on ubuntu it's as simple as:
sudo aptitude install python-pycurl
It's common enough a package to think that most major Linux distributions will have it in their sources.
If you're on windows, you'll need cURL too. Then you can install pycurl which comes wrapped in an installer.
As it has been said already, it depends on the platform.
In general, I prefer to use only the Python interpreter itself that is packaged for my OS and install everything else in a virtual environment, but this is a whole different story... If you've got setuptools installed, installing most Python packages is as simple as:
easy_install pycurl
According to http://bazaar-vcs.org/PyCurl
Since Windows does not come with neither cURL or pycURL, Windows users will have to install both.
cURL downloads: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html.
pycURL downloads: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/download/.
Both links contain Linux (and other *Nix) tarballs/packages and Windows installer files.
There are windows installers at both links, hopefully they will work for you.