newbie: installing setuptools

[Surbhi Gupta]

Hey, I am new to python and facing problem with installing packages. I am using VPython which requires Python 2.7.x from python.org; it will not work with versions of Python other than the one from python.org. So I need to install packages separately. 

I was trying to install scipy-0.14.0, it gives following error:
Warning (from warnings module):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 267
    warnings.warn(msg)
UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'

So I thought maybe I need to install setuptools first. I ran setup.py file in IDLE. it runs fine and then I can import it in current session. But when I run session, it still says 'no module named setuptools'. Same thing happened when I tried to install nose.