pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Mark H. Harris
hi folks, I am having a fit with pip this afternoon. I finally got pip installed on this system from a binary blob (what nightmare, talk about 1987). Anyway, pip is installed, but when I go to PyPI to pull down distutils is gives a message that no such package exists. I feel like Obeewan;

Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/03/2014 20:10, Mark H. Harris wrote: hi folks, I am having a fit with pip this afternoon. I finally got pip installed on this system from a binary blob (what nightmare, talk about 1987). Anyway, pip is installed, but when I go to PyPI to pull down distutils is gives a message that no

Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Mark H. Harris
On Monday, March 3, 2014 2:53:00 PM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote: distutils has been part of the standard library for years. hi Mark, that's fabulous, why can't I import it? Because I'm doing something wrong of course. :) marcus -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Robert Kern
On 2014-03-03 21:20, Mark H. Harris wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 2:53:00 PM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote: distutils has been part of the standard library for years. hi Mark, that's fabulous, why can't I import it? Because I'm doing something wrong of course. :) Probably. If you want us

Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Mark H. Harris
On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:32:43 PM UTC-6, Robert Kern wrote: Probably. If you want us to help, you need to show us what you tried, tell us what results you expected, and copy-paste the output that you got. Robert Kern hi Robert, well, I finally came up with trying to find setup(). Its a

Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Roy Smith
In article 31feb451-7fb6-48a6-9986-bddce69c4...@googlegroups.com, Mark H. Harris harrismh...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:32:43 PM UTC-6, Robert Kern wrote: Probably. If you want us to help, you need to show us what you tried, tell us what results you expected, and

Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Robert Kern
On 2014-03-03 21:37, Mark H. Harris wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:32:43 PM UTC-6, Robert Kern wrote: Probably. If you want us to help, you need to show us what you tried, tell us what results you expected, and copy-paste the output that you got. Robert Kern hi Robert, well, I finally

Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

2014-03-03 Thread Mark H. Harris
On Monday, March 3, 2014 4:11:44 PM UTC-6, Robert Kern wrote: http://docs.python.org/3/distutils/index.html Robert Kern hi Robert, I'm not whining --really-- but there is so dang much doc out there on how to upload a package to PyPI with every tool under the sun and all of them fancier