updates

Author: arnoudbuzing

Prototypes/PacletInfo.m

@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@
 "Prototypes`$UUIDStringPattern","Prototypes`GeoContourMap",
 "Prototypes`RandomRomanNumeral", "Prototypes`Deconstruct", "Prototypes`RandomDelete",
 "Prototypes`RandomPosition", "Prototypes`What3Words", "Prototypes`$HashTypes",
-"Prototypes`PrimeCount", "Prototypes`PrimeSum", "Prototypes`$EnglishWords", "Prototypes`OpenSky","Prototypes`SetAutoStyleOptions"}
+"Prototypes`PrimeCount", "Prototypes`PrimeSum", "Prototypes`$EnglishWords", "Prototypes`OpenSky","Prototypes`SetAutoStyleOptions",
+"Prototypes`ExternalInstall", "Prototypes`ExternalUninstall"}
     }
   }
 ]

Prototypes/Prototypes.wl

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Module[ {files},
     "Image.wl", "Language.wl", "Paclet.wl", "Formats.wl",
     "Resources.wl", "Search.wl", "String.wl", "System.wl", "Color.wl", "Styles.wl",
     "Entities.wl", "WolframAlpha.wl", "Translation.wl","GeoGraphics.wl", "Words.wl", "Packages.wl", "Random.wl",
-    "Cryptography.wl", "Service/What3Words.wl", "Service/OpenSky.wl", "Primes/Primes.wl"};
+    "Cryptography.wl", "External.wl", "Service/What3Words.wl", "Service/OpenSky.wl", "Primes/Primes.wl"};
     Map[
       Function[ {file},
         AppendTo[ timings, file<>"-Before" -> N@SessionTime[] ];

Prototypes/Source/External.wl

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ExternalInstall["Python", package_String] := RunProcess[{"pip", "install", package}]
+
+ExternalUninstall["Python", package_String] := RunProcess[{"pip", "uninstall", "-y", package}]

Prototypes/Source/Usage.wl

@@ -151,3 +151,7 @@ PrimeSum::usage = "PrimeSum[n] gives the sum of primes less than or equal to 'n'
 $EnglishWords::usage = "$EnglishWords is a list of over 450,000 words found in the English language. Uses data from: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words";
 
 SetAutoStyleOptions::usage = "SetAutoStyleOptions[n] uses ColorData[n] to set syntax coloring styles";
+
+(* external *)
+ExternalInstall::usage = "ExternalInstall[\"Python\", package] installs 'package' for Python using 'pip install'";
+ExternalUninstall::usage = "ExternalUninstall[\"Python\", package] uninstalls 'package' for Python using 'pip uninstall -y'";