[Distutils] bdist_wininst TypeError

[Mike]

On 10/7/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 07:05 AM 10/7/2007 -0500, Mike wrote:
> >Phillip,
> >
> >On 10/6/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > > At 02:25 PM 10/6/2007 -0500, Mike wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >That's what I thought, but before I installed the distutils package
> > > >manually, I got this:
> > > >
> > > >L:\Temp\pycrypto-2.0.1>python setup.py
> > > >Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > >   File "setup.py", line 8, in ?
> > > >     from setuptools import setup
> > > >ImportError: No module named setuptools
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >And I get that now that I've deleted the distutils-egg file. Do I need
> > > >to download setuptools from some place?
> > >
> > > Distutils comes with Python, setuptools does not.  For setuptools
> > > installation info, see:
> > >
> > >     http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
> > >
> >
> >I'm usually not this dense when it comes to Python. I'm just new to
> >the distribution process. I did as you said and now I'm back to the
> >first error I posted. I deleted the distutils-egg and the
> >setuptools-egg directories.
>
> Try this:
>
> python -c "import distutils; print distutils.__version__, distutils.__file__"
>
> This should print a version and a filename.  The filename should be
> something like 'c:\Python24\Lib\distutils\...' (*without*
> site-packages between the Lib and distutils), and the version should
> be 1.0.3 or higher.
>
> If the location is different, you haven't uninstalled it
> correctly.  If the location is correct but the version is less than
> 1.0.3, you installed the distutils over the version that came with
> Python, and will have to reinstall Python to fix it.
>
>

Here is what was returned:

2.4.1 L:\Python24\lib\distutils\__init__.py

I did notice that if I try running Python from the command line, it
loads the ActiveState version of Python 2.4.3 rather than the "normal"
2.4.3 version. I don't suppose that could be the problem,  could it? I
checked the path that ActiveState uses and it points to the same
location though...

I'm at a loss.

Mike