How to: Setuptools

[Mark Lawrence]

On 28/05/2013 13:03, rusi wrote:
> On May 28, 6:32 am, ray <r... at aarden.us> wrote:
>> 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 onhttps://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 athttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, but the
>> instructions on the page state the .exe won't work for 64-bit installs.
>>
>> Ray
>
> Since there seems to be no response to this, let me try (even though I
> am not on windows)
> Just point your browser at the link
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
> And save the file ez_setup.py
>
> The more windows-y way of running this is to right-click this and edit
> the run-with in some way that I dont have at my finger-tips.

Do this, something goes wrong, no output to see.

>
> The more old-fashioned way is to start a dos-box (run cmd.exe)
> navigate to the directory where the ez_setup.py is saved
> from there run the command:
> python ez_setup.py

Do this, something goes wrong, output in front of you.

>
> Do that and report back on what happened
>

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