A cookbook for managing python-related resources in a simple way
This is mostly a ripoff of the python cookbook, since it's both deprecated and has its resource names stolen by poise-python cookbook
Resources:

backslasher_python_pip_installer: Makes sure a python envrionment has pip installed
backslasher_python_pip: A pip package
backslasher_python_virtualenv: A virtual environment

Supported Platforms

Should work on normal Linux boxes. Possibly on Windows.
I'm testing on:

Ubuntu 14.04
CentOS 6 (6.7)
CentOS 7 (7.1)

Attributes

['backslasher-python']['install_method']: How to install python. Defaults to package. I'm currently not supoorting any other method.

Recipes

backslasher-python::default

The works - installs Python, pip and virtualenv.
Python is installed according to ['backslasher-python']['install_method']

backslasher-python::package

Installs python using the repo's packages.
Provides both python runtime and Python development headers

backslasher-python::pip

Installs pip on the "regular" Python (the one available as python)

backslasher-python::virtualenv

Installs the virtualenv pip package on the "regular" Python. Also makes sure pip is installed.

Resources

backslasher_python_pip_installer

Installs pip on a specific python executable

Properties

python_path: Python binary to install pip on.
Defaults to python, which should find the "system" python

Note: This action might overwrite the "primary" pip binary. There is no easy way to avoid this since there is no way to instruct setuptools not to create "entry points". I'll happily accept a PR for fixing this.

backslasher_python_pip

Installs/removed/upgrades a pip package

Actions

install: Install the pip package
upgrade: Upgrade the pip package if it is uninstalled / has version mismatch. Will upgrade to latest by default.
remove: Remove the pip package if installed

Properties

python_path: Python binary to install on.
Not relevant if using virtualenv property.
Defaults to python, which should find the "system" python.
package_name: Pip package to install. Defaults to the resource's name
``package_url: Optional. Used to specify a URL to install the package from (e.g. pip install git+git://git.myproject.org/MyProject#egg=MyProject`)
version: Optional. Specifies a pip version to install
virtualenv: Optional. Specifies a virtualenv path to install/remove the pip package in
timeout: Time allotted for pip commands. Defaults to 900 seconds (15 min)
``user`: User to run the commands under
group: Group to run the commands under
environment: Hash of environment variables to pass to the pip commands
install_options: An array of arguments to pass to the pip commands when installing / upgrading packages
smart\_install: Uses a python script to check if package should be installed. Avoids running pip (and marking the resource as updated) "for nothing". Does not work in edge cases, so disabled by default.

backslasher_virtualenv

Manages a python virtualenv

Actions

create: Creates the virtualenv
delete: Deletes the virtualenv

Properties

path: Location inside the filesystem of the virtualenv. Defaults to the resource's name
interpreter: Optional. Python binary used for venv. Defaults to the system python
owner: Optional. Owning user of the virtualenv
group: Optional. Owning group of the virtualenv
options: Optional. A string of arguments to pass the virtualenv creator

License and Authors

Licensed GPL v2
Author: Nitzan Raz (backslasher)

I'll be happy to accept contributions or to hear from you!