On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:47 AM, eryksun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Richard D. Moores <rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>> So what? Why should the way that Python software gets installed vary from >>> version to version? >> >> Try it yourself and you'll see. > > The setup.py needs setuptools as per jcoon's answer. For 3.x you need > to install Distribute, which is a fork of setuptools. The line "from > setuptools import setup" extensively patches distutils. It then honors > the option 'install_requires = ["six"]' to fetch and install the > dependency (this dependency is new to version 2.1) when you run > "setup.py install". Alternatively, once you have Distribute installed, > you can add the Scripts directory to the Windows PATH and just > "easy_install python-dateutil" in an elevated console.
Yes. Thanks to your earlier post I was able to do the installation. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor