Common issue but unable to find common solution (ez_setup.py on PC)

[Jason Mellone]

Hello,

By way of google I realize I am having what appears to be a pretty common issue install ez_setup.py on a PC (Windows XP, Python27). 

I receive an error message that looks like the following:

Installing easy_install-2.7.exe.manifest script to C:\Python27\Scripts

 Installed c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-3.5.1-py2.7.egg
 Processing dependencies for setuptools==3.5.1
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 217, in <module>
     dist = setuptools.setup(**setup_params)
   File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
     dist.run_commands()
   File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
     self.run_command(cmd)
   File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
     cmd_obj.run()
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\setuptools\co
 mmand\install.py", line 65, in run
     self.do_egg_install()
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\setuptools\co
 mmand\install.py", line 115, in do_egg_install
     cmd.run()
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\setuptools\co
 mmand\easy_install.py", line 360, in run
     self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\setuptools\co
 mmand\easy_install.py", line 576, in easy_install
     return self.install_item(None, spec, tmpdir, deps, True)
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\setuptools\co
 mmand\easy_install.py", line 627, in install_item
     self.process_distribution(spec, dist, deps)
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\setuptools\co
 mmand\easy_install.py", line 673, in process_distribution
     [requirement], self.local_index, self.easy_install
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 633, in resolve
     requirements.extend(dist.requires(req.extras)[::-1])
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 2291, in requires
     dm = self._dep_map
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 2277, in _dep_map
     for extra, reqs in split_sections(self._get_metadata(name)):
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 2715, in split_sections
     for line in yield_lines(s):
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 1989, in yield_lines
     for ss in strs:
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 2305, in _get_metadata
     for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 1369, in get_metadata_lines
     return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 1361, in get_metadata
     return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info, name))
   File "c:\docume~1\jason\locals~1\temp\tmpqpn4qe\setuptools-3.5.1\pkg_resources
 .py", line 1425, in _get
     return self.loader.get_data(path)
 zipimport.ZipImportError: bad local file header in c:\python27\lib\site-packages
 \setuptools-3.5.1-py2.7.egg
 Something went wrong during the installation.
 See the error message above.

 C:\Python27>python ez_setup.py 


Is there a common solution for this issue?

Thank you very much.