Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > En Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:23:01 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> On Mar 28, 1:57 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> En Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:14:07 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >>> >>> > I am trying to install the twitter python wrapper...I got that >>> > installed just fine, but am having serious troubles getting the >>> > simplejson package to install. I need help diagnosing where this is >>> > failing. I am trying to use: >>> >>> >http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson >>> >>> > and I run "python setup.py build" and then "python setup.py install", >>> > which both seem to work just fine. > > I tried to install the package but failed. Looks like the setup.py used > by simplejson is broken - doesn't handle well the case when the C > extension can't be compiled. > When I run `python setup.py install` I got this message: > > building 'simplejson._speedups' extension > ********************************************************************** > WARNING: The C extension could not be compiled, speedups are not enabled. > > Below is the output showing how the compilation failed: > > Python was built with Visual Studio version 7.1, and extensions need to > be built > with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed. > ********************************************************************** > > and later: > removing simplejson.egg-info\native_libs.txt > ... > error: can't copy 'simplejson.egg-info\native_libs.txt': doesn't exist > or not a regular file > > I suggest that you remove the simplejson-xxxxxx.egg file and delete the > simplejson entry in easy-install.pth (both in your site-packages directory) > Then extract the simplejson directory from inside the original .tar.gz > archive into your site-packages directory (so you end up by example with > a .../site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py file, among others) > That appears to be enough; import simplejson worked fine for me. > > I hate those f****ng eggs. Ah, and I hate easy_install too.
This has nothing to do with setuptools or easy_install per se. The author of simplejson tried to create a library that works with or without a C-extension. And failed. As your above approach fails to even *try* and compile the speedups. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
