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