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

[Jason Mellone]

On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:44:14 AM UTC-4, Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
> Hi.
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> On 7.5.2014. 13:55, Jason Mellone wrote:
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> > By way of google I realize I am having what appears to be
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> > a pretty common issue install ez_setup.py on a PC (Windows XP, Python27).
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> > I receive an error message that looks like the following:
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> > Installing easy_install-2.7.exe.manifest script to C:\Python27\Scripts
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> >[...snipped a long traceback...]
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> >       return self.loader.get_data(path)
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> >   zipimport.ZipImportError: bad local file header in c:\python27\lib\site-packages
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> >   \setuptools-3.5.1-py2.7.egg
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> >   Something went wrong during the installation.
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> >   See the error message above.
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>    You can run into this when attempting to upgrade an existing 
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> setuptools installation packaged as a zipped egg (due to some old 
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> zipimporter caches not getting cleaned up correctly).
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> > Is there a common solution for this issue?
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>    It has already been reported and a patch has been prepared. See the 
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> following:
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>    https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/168
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>    https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/pull-request/48
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>    But the patch is still waiting on the maintainer to apply it.
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>    Hope this helps.
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>    Best regards,
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>      Jurko Gospodnetić

So, is the answer:

1 - Until the patch is applied there is no answer

or 

2 - I can go in and manually modify the code, and have the ez setup work?