On May 7, 12:34 pm, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > OldGrantonian <oldgranton...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Thanks to both Steven D'Aprano and Ant :) > > >>> Sounds like you've downloaded the Python 2.5 version of Easy Install. > > > There's no Python 2.6 version of EasyInstall :( > > I wonder what I've been running then? > > > > > For 2.5, there is: > > > setuptools-0.6c9.win32-py2.5.exe > > > But for 2.6, it's: > > > setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg > > > For any other egg file, I would use EasyInstall, but I don't think I > > can use EasyInstall to install EasyInstall :) > > No, but you can use ez_setup. > > Go tohttp://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.pyand save the content > of that file as ez_setup.py (cut and paste into your favourite editor may > be the simplest way) then run it with your chosen Python. It will find and > install the appropriate version of easy install. > > -- > Duncan Boothhttp://kupuguy.blogspot.com
ez_setup worked fine. Thanks for that :) According to the web site: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv the next step is to do: virtualenv ENV If I do that, I get the following message: -------------------------------- C:\Python26\Scripts>virtualenv ENV Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python26\Scripts\virtualenv-script.py", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.3.3', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')() File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.3.3-py2.6.egg \virtualenv.py", line 420 unzip_setuptools=options.unzip_setuptools) File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.3.3-py2.6.egg \virtualenv.py", line 499 home_dir, lib_dir, inc_dir, bin_dir = path_locations(home_dir) File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\virtualenv-1.3.3-py2.6.egg \virtualenv.py", line 521 import win32api ImportError: No module named win32api C:\Python26\Scripts> -------------------------------- Any advice? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list