git - Import a Python library from Github

Question

I'm new to Python so this may sound silly.

I want to use a Python library I've found on Github, lets say on https://github.com/praw-dev/praw, and I want to be able to do git pull in the future to pull the latest commits.

Question: Should I git clone <git url> in the project directory and delete everything except the praw directory, then in my python script do a import praw?

In iPython,

import praw

gives the error ImportError: No module named praw

Directory Structure

~myProject
    praw
    myNotebook.ipynb

Answer 1

Actually, if given package is not on PyPI (or you want a specific branch) you can still install it through pip from GitHub with:

pip install git+https://github.com/[repo owner]/[repo]@[branch name]

And for your problem it would be (although @pandita's answer is correct for normal usage case):

pip install git+https://github.com/praw-dev/praw.git

For more information check this answer.