How to add external python library (Shapely)?

Hello,

is there a simple/official way of adding external libraries to python? I want to use Shapely.

I already tried downloading shapely and running the following command "abaqus python setup.py install" (was a suggestion on researchgate), but did not work because "ImportError: No module named setuptools".

EDIT: I did find other suggestions (e.g. copying python folders), but I don't want to run into complications later on that are caused by a faulty installation.


Kind regards

Mike