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Please here after the typical list of addition packages I'm using.
Most of same are compliant with pip download installation mode:
pip install <package> or <installation directory>\python.exe -m pip install <package>

• doxypypy : required for documentation generation
• pylint: required for code quality
• openxl : MS Excel & Libreoffice calc files manipulation
• pyqt5 :
• py2exe
• rtcclient : optional RTC management
• lxml (see below for installation)
• pywin32 (see below fo installation)

As on Windows download pip lxml installation may failed, use the file pip installation mode: * download the package from Unofficial Windows binaries as described by lxml.de official site.

* C:\Apps\Python36>python.exe -m pip install <download path location>\lxml-3.7.1-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

* use pypiwin32 a pip compliant version of pywin32 but at time I'm writing this lines only the 2.19 is available where the official package is now available in version 2.20 * download the installation package from official site direct access to build 220 files

= installation issue workaround =

* If the install package complains to not find any Python36 amd64 installation, try using the source package Download the source package, unzip it Make sure to have latest visual studio SDK installed Open SDK command line (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x4d2c09s.aspx) * choose Start, expand All Programs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Tools, and then choose a command prompt Make sure your python installation is in PATH
SET PATH=<python.exe directory path>;%PATH% Run the following command from source directory:\\C:\Apps\Python36\pywin32-220>python setup3.py install If your experimented the following issue
Converting… Executing… Building pywin32 3.6.220.0 Traceback (most recent call last): File “setup3.py”, line 16, in <module> exec(str(got)) File “<string>”, line 1944, in <module> File “<string>”, line 594, in init File “C:\Apps\Python36\lib\ntpath.py”, line 75, in join path = os.fspath(path) TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType Setup.py is looking for MsSdk environment variable : dupe it
* search for windows.h in c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs * SET MSSdk=c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\ Re run the command and waiting a while … ==== Fundamental Rules ==== == RUL_GEN_001 Comments == A comment is there to explain the code not to rephrase it.
Comment shall not contradict the code, update the comment with the code. == RUL_GEN_002 Important Rule == <note tip> If you don't understand why you should not modify a line, DON'T MODIFY IT! </note> == RUL_GEN_003 More Important Rule == Don't modify a line just to make it nicer, better, what ever justification you want, until there is a declared issue or an enhancement or task assigned to you linked with the line. == RUL_GEN_004 Mosy Important Rule == <note warning> In any case, Keep it simple** </note>

Follow the Python development guidelines described in PEP008 with the following adaptations

Configure your editor to replace tab by 4 spaces (4). If your editor is not enable to replace don't insert TAB.

Always use 4 space indentation except for arguments indentation

Use str only for internal 7 bits characters string or bytes storage

Use QString only for Qt API functions and methods, convert results as soon as possible to unicode to be compliant for Python functions.

For all other strings use unicode only strings.