Mac schrieb:
We've got ActiveState Python 2.6 installed on a Windows XP box, and I pulled down the latest archgenxml package (2.2) in order to get it running under this installation of Python. I unpacked the tarball for the package and tried running `python setup.py build' but got an ImportError exception: "no module named setuptools." So back to Google, where I find http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, which says "[For Windows] install setuptools using the provided .exe installer." I go down to the bottom of the page and I see that there is no .exe installer for Python 2.6. All there is for that version of Python is setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg. I get the impression from the references to "Python Eggs" on the setuptools page that setuptools is a utility for installing Python Eggs. So we're supposed to use a utility that isn't installed yet to install that utility? Does anyone else understand how lame this is? From where I stand, the story for installation of third-party packages in Python is a sad, confused mess, and the Achilles heel of a language of which in all other respects I think very highly.
googling "setuptools bootstrap" yields this as first link: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py Download that, and run "python ez_setup.py". That's it. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
