Thanks, Philip. I installed python-devel from the SUSE installation CD and that helped. I was able to import distutils without any error from the python prompt.
-----Original Message----- From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:51 AM To: Rajeev Nair; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Distutils] DistUtils does not install At 12:59 AM 7/26/2007 +0530, Rajeev Nair wrote: >Hi Folks, > >I am a complete newbie to python and its modules. I have got the >following error upon installing DistUtils modules > >Python setup.py install > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "setup.py", line 30, in ? > packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'], > File "/usr/local/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py", line 101, in setup > _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs) > File "/usr/local/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/dist.py", line 130, in __init__ > setattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name)) >AttributeError: DistributionMetadata instance has no attribute 'get___doc__' > >What am I missing here ? Tried Installing some python-devel modules >too but they just wouldn't install complaining about the python >version to be 2.4. I have installed the same version of python though. > >The OS is Suse x86_64 GNU/Linux > >Please help. The distutils are included with modern Python versions; you should not attempt to install the standalone version, as it is almost certainly *way* out of date. If your operating system does not include the distutils as part of its standard Python installation, you'll need to install whatever package (usually python-devel) contains them. To check if you already have the distutils installed correctly, start your python interpreter and "import distutils". If that doesn't give you an error, they're already installed. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
