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

Python has everything on board to do this.

from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#installing-and-using-setuptools I got the URL to the ez_setup.py: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py

instead downloading it and fiddling with the file we can do this from the console:

import urllib
url = 'https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py'
ezcode = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
exec(ezcode)

Answer 2

ActivePython already includes setuptools (Distribute actually), along with pip and virtualenv.

Answer 3

Second option worked for me.

Two notes:

a. After installing, when you using easy_install in vista, do so as administrator. (Right click on your command line shortcut and click "run as administrator"). I had trouble trying to run easy_install without doing that.

b. He means use ez_setup from setuptools-0.6c9.tar.gz

Answer 4

I got it working quickly by downloading the source and then running (from the extracted directory):

python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst

That builds dist\setuptools-0.6c9.win32.exe, which is exactly the installer you're looking for.

Answer 5

OP option 1 did not work for me.

However doing setup.py install as mentioned by NathanD did do the trick.

Maybe that should become option 1?

Werner

Answer 6

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.