I have a great video on how to setup Easy_Install via setuptools as well as pip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHYflJwyLk
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:32 PM, ray <r...@aarden.us> wrote: > > I would like to use easy_install, but can't figure out how to install it. > > I have 64-bit Python 2.7.5 on Windows 7. > > Following the instructions on https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, it > says: > Download ez_setup.py and run it; it will download the appropriate .egg > file and install it for you. (Currently, the provided .exe installer does > not support 64-bit versions of Python for Windows, due to a distutils > installer compatibility issue > > Being new to Python, I don't know what it means to "run it". I am not > sure what I am looking at when I open it as the first line is "#!python". > > Looking down into the content of ez_setup.py, I find: > 'setuptools-0.6c10-py2.6.egg': > but there is no entry > 'setuptools-0.6c10-py2.7.egg': > > Searching for it, I found a version at: > https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/ > > This appeared to be a linux version, the first line is: > #!/bin/sh > and the content seems to be encoded. > > There is an exe at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, but the > instructions on the page state the .exe won't work for 64-bit installs. > > Ray > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
