How to: Setuptools

[Michael Herman]

I have a great video on how to setup Easy_Install via setuptools as
well as pip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHYflJwyLk

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:32 PM, ray <ray 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 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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