On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, John Salerno <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There is a fork of setuptools called "distribute" that supports Python > > 3. > > Thanks, I guess I'll give this a try tonight! > > > setup.py is a file that should be included at the top-level of the > > .tar files you downloaded. Generally, to install something in that > > manner, you would navigate to that top-level folder and run "python > > setup.py install". If you have multiple Python versions installed and > > want to install the package for a specific version, then you would use > > that version of Python to run the setup.py file. > > The only files included in the .tar.gz file is a .tar file of the same > name. So I guess the setup option doesn't exist for these particular > packages. I'll try "distribute" tonight when I have some time to mess > with all of this. > > So much work just to get a 3rd party module installed! > --
It's because your extraction program is weird. Gzip is a compression algorithm that operates on a single file. Tar is an archive format that combines multiple files into a single file. When we say "extract the .tar.gz", what we mean is both uncompress the tar file and then extract everything out of that. A lot of programs will do that in one step. If you look inside the tar file, you should find the setup.py. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
