- pip packages

- virtualenv isolated Python environments

Install packages using the new hotness in Python package management...[`pip`](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip). Yo dawg...easy_install is so 2009, you better ask your local Pythonista if you don't know! The usage semantics are like that of any normal package provider.

- :install: Install a pip package - if version is provided, install that specific version (default)

- :upgrade: Upgrade a pip package - if version is provided, upgrade to that specific version

- :remove: Remove a pip package

- :purge: Purge a pip package (this usually entails removing configuration files as well as the package itself). With pip packages this behaves the same as `:remove`

- package_name: name attribute. The name of the pip package to install

- version: the version of the package to install/upgrade. If no version is given latest is assumed.

- virtualenv: virtualenv environment to install pip package into

- options: Add additional options to the underlying pip package command

- timeout: timeout in seconds for the command to execute. Useful for pip packages that may take a long time to install. Default 900 seconds.

python_pip "gunicorn"

[`virtualenv`](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv) is a great tool that creates isolated python environments. Think of it as RVM without all those hipsters and tight jeans.

- options : Command line options (string)

python_virtualenv "/home/ubuntu/my_cool_ve" do