How to: Setuptools

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On May 28, 6:40 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 28/05/2013 14:05, ray wrote:
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> > The installation fails.  The report stated it could not find the file.
> > Per:
> > 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?
>
> > Ray
>
> Try reading thishttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/3652625/installing-setuptools-on-6...
> which refers to thishttp://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/where
> you can get pip which is an easy_install replacement.  You pays your
> money, you takes your choice :)

Hmm...
Something new (for me)
Last I knew, pip was the supposed replacement for setuptools and you
had to install setuptools to install pip!!!
Maybe this has changed?? Or its different on windows??