Python - Is there any way to get pip without setuptools?

Question

Seems kinda weird that they'd require a package manager to install a package manager. I'm on Windows BTW.

Answer 1

Pip does require setuptools. Pip is really just a wrapper around setuptools to provide a better installer than easy_install and some nicer installation behaviors, plus uninstall, requirements files, etc. Even if you somehow got pip installed without setuptools it still won't run without it.

Answer 2

You can use Distribute instead of setuptools: it installs a package called setuptools (it's a fork of the latter). You can install Distribute by downloading and running distribute_setup.py.

Update: As Gringo Suave says, the above is obsolete now - distribute and setuptools have now merged, and the merged project is called setuptools.

Answer 3

You can download setuptools package as Windows installer from pypi/setuptools and then install pip or easy_install

Answer 4

Solution for Windows Users

If you installed ActivePython on Windows, then you have pip by default, as well as PyPM (ActiveState's package manager). The following excerpt is from What's included in ActivePython 2.7:

Additional Packages

• PyPM: Python Package Manager to download and install binary packages. Also included: virtualenv, Distribute, pip, SQLAlchemy.

Solution for OS X Users

Not sure if setuptools is required when installing pip using homebrew. You might try that.

To install homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"

Then to install pip:

brew install pip

Answer 5

Sure, just grab the source from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/0.8.2#downloads

unpack it, cd into it, and run python setup.py install