How to: Setuptools

[rusi]

On May 28, 6:05 pm, ray <r... at aarden.us> wrote:
> On May 28, 7:26 am, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > On 28/05/2013 13:03, rusi wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > >> I have 64-bit Python 2.7.5 on Windows 7.
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> > >> 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
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> > >> 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".
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> > >> 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':
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> > >> Searching for it, I found a version at:https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/
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> > >> This appeared to be a linux version, the first line is:
> > >> #!/bin/sh
> > >> and the content seems to be encoded.
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> > >> 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.
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> > >> Ray
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> > > 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
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> > > 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.
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> > Do this, something goes wrong, no output to see.
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> > > 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
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> > Do this, something goes wrong, output in front of you.
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> > > Do that and report back on what happened
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> > --
> > If you're using GoogleCrap� please read thishttp://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython.
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> > Mark Lawrence
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> The installation fails.  The report stated it could not find the file.
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> 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':
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> Since I am trying to install this for Python 2.7, it fails.
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> Any suggestions?
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> Ray

Mysterious...

If you are in hack mode you could try patching that file with the 2.7
egg name and md5
Both of them here https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

ie after this line
'setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg': 'bfa92100bd772d5a213eedd356d64086',

add this line
'setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg': 'fe1f997bc722265116870bc7919059ea',

However it maybe a better idea to ask on the distutils mailing list
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/

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