Advanced installation

When you install peony using this command:

$ pip3 install 'peony-twitter[all]'

You install some modules that you may not need. But before deciding to not install these modules you need to know what will change if they are not installed.

python-magic

You can install it by running:

$ pip3 install 'peony-twitter[magic]'

python-magic is used to find the mimetype of a file. The mimetype of a media has to be given when making a multipart upload. If you don’t install this module you will not be able to send large pictures or GIFs from a file path that would not be recognized by the mimetypes module (shipped with Python) or from a file object.

If python-magic doesn’t seem to be used check that libmagic is installed on your system as this module depends on this native library. You can follow the installation instructions of python-magic.

aiofiles

You can install it by running:

$ pip3 install 'peony-twitter[aiofiles]'

or directly:

$ pip3 install aiofiles

When this is installed every file will be opened using aiofiles, thus every read operation will not block the event loop.

Note

magic and aiofiles can be installed using the media extra requirement:

$ pip3 install 'peony-twitter[media]'

aiohttp

This command will install some optional dependencies of aiohttp:

$ pip3 install 'peony-twitter[aiohttp]'

or again directly:

$ pip3 install cchardet aiodns

This will install cchardet and aiodns, which could speed up aiohttp.

Minimal installation

If you don’t need these modules you can run:

$ pip3 install peony-twitter

You can install these modules later if you change your mind.