How to: Setuptools

[Carlos Nepomuceno]

curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
python ez_setup.py

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> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:32:43 -0700
> Subject: How to: Setuptools
> From: ray at aarden.us
> To: python-list at python.org
>
> I would like to use easy_install, but can't figure out how to install it.
>
> I have 64-bit Python 2.7.5 on Windows 7.
>
> Following the instructions on https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, it says:
> Download ez_setup.py and run it; it will download the appropriate .egg file and install it for you. (Currently, the provided .exe installer does not support 64-bit versions of Python for Windows, due to a distutils installer compatibility issue
>
> Being new to Python, I don't know what it means to "run it". I am not sure what I am looking at when I open it as the first line is "#!python".
>
> Looking down into the content of ez_setup.py, I find:
> 'setuptools-0.6c10-py2.6.egg':
> but there is no entry
> 'setuptools-0.6c10-py2.7.egg':
>
> Searching for it, I found a version at:
> https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/
>
> This appeared to be a linux version, the first line is:
> #!/bin/sh
> and the content seems to be encoded.
>
> There is an exe at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, but the
> instructions on the page state the .exe won't work for 64-bit installs.
>
> Ray
>
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