pip install --upgrade sqlalchemy gives maximum recursion depth exceeded

Question

I\'ve tried pip install --upgrade sqlalchemy, python2.7 setup.py install, and after deleting the sqlalchemy folder in site-packages, I\'ve tried

Answer 1

Looks like my "distribute" (v0.6xxx) was out of date. I ran

pip install --upgrade distribute 

and it installed 0.7.3.

Then ran pip install sqlalchemy and it installed.

Same problem encountered installing other packages.