Installing BeautifulSoup with easy_install (broken?)

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Larry Bates schrieb:
> Info:
> 
> Python version: ActivePython 2.5.1.1
> Platform: Windows
> 
> I wanted to install BeautifulSoup today for a small project and decided 
> to use easy_install.  I can install other packages just fine.  
> Unfortunately I get the following error from BeautifulSoup installation 
> attempt:
> 
> C:\Python25\Lib\SITE-P~1>easy_install BeautifulSoup
> Searching for BeautifulSoup
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/BeautifulSoup/
> Reading http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
> Reading http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/
> Best match: BeautifulSoup 3.0.5
> Downloading 
> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/BeautifulSoup-
> 3.0.5.tar.gz
> Processing BeautifulSoup-3.0.5.tar.gz
> Running BeautifulSoup-3.0.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir 
> c:\docume~1\larry\l
> ocals~1\temp\easy_install-cfdxna\BeautifulSoup-3.0.5\egg-dist-tmp-gbrpp5
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python25\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in <module>
>     load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c8', 'console_scripts', 
> 'easy_install')()
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 1671, in main
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 1659, in with_ei_usage
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 1675, in <lambda>
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 211, in run
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\comm
> and\easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\sand
> box.py", line 27, in run_setup
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\sand
> box.py", line 63, in run
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg\setuptools\sand
> box.py", line 29, in <lambda>
>   File "C:\VOL1\Larry\Websafe\Python\wstools\setup.py", line 2, in <module>
>     import py2exe
>   File "C:\VOL1\Larry\Websafe\Python\wstools\unittest.py", line 3, in 
> <module>
>     class TextCtrlTest(unittest.TestCase):
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'TestCase'
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any "clues".

I'm not sure what happens - but I think it is suspicious that these 
"wstools" get into the way. And it looks as if wstools.unittest imports 
itself, instead of the python-unittest - which must be solved with 
getting the sys.path fixed.

Diez