How do I set up Setuptools for Python 2.6 on Windows?

Question

Is there any way to install Setuptools for Python 2.6 in Windows without having an exe installer?

There isn\'t one built at the moment, and the maintainer of Setupt

Answer 1

You could download and run http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py. This will download and install setuptools.

[update]

This script no longer works - the version of setuptools the it downloads is not at the URI specified in ez_setup.py -navigate to http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/ for the latest version - the script also does some md5 checking, I haven't looked into it any further.