No module named setuptools

Question

I want to install setup file of twilio. When I install it through given command it is given me an error:

No module named setuptools.

Answer 1

The PyPA recommended tool for installing and managing Python packages is pip. pip is included with Python 3.4 (PEP 453), but for older versions here's how to install it (on Windows, using Python 3.3):

Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

>c:\Python33\python.exe get-pip.py
Downloading/unpacking pip
Downloading/unpacking setuptools
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools
Successfully installed pip setuptools
Cleaning up...

Sample usage:

>c:\Python33\Scripts\pip.exe install pymysql
Downloading/unpacking pymysql
Installing collected packages: pymysql
Successfully installed pymysql
Cleaning up...

In your case it would be this (it appears that pip caches independent of Python version):

C:\Python27>python.exe \code\Python\get-pip.py
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in c:\python27\lib\site-packages
Collecting wheel
  Downloading wheel-0.29.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (66kB)
    100% |################################| 69kB 255kB/s
Installing collected packages: wheel
Successfully installed wheel-0.29.0

C:\Python27>cd Scripts

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip install twilio
Collecting twilio
  Using cached twilio-5.3.0.tar.gz
Collecting httplib2>=0.7 (from twilio)
  Using cached httplib2-0.9.2.tar.gz
Collecting six (from twilio)
  Using cached six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pytz (from twilio)
  Using cached pytz-2015.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Building wheels for collected packages: twilio, httplib2
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for twilio ... done
  Stored in directory: C:\Users\Cees.Timmerman\AppData\Local\pip\Cache\wheels\e0\f2\a7\c57f6d153c440b93bd24c1243123f276dcacbf43cc43b7f906
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for httplib2 ... done
  Stored in directory: C:\Users\Cees.Timmerman\AppData\Local\pip\Cache\wheels\e1\a3\05\e66aad1380335ee0a823c8f1b9006efa577236a24b3cb1eade
Successfully built twilio httplib2
Installing collected packages: httplib2, six, pytz, twilio
Successfully installed httplib2-0.9.2 pytz-2015.7 six-1.10.0 twilio-5.3.0

Answer 2

For Python Run This Command

apt-get install -y python-setuptools

For Python 3.

apt-get install -y python3-setuptools

Answer 3

For ubuntu users, this error may arise because setuptool is not installed system-wide. Simply install setuptool using the command:

sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools

For python3:

sudo apt-get install -y python3-setuptools

After that, install your package again normally, using

sudo python setup.py install

That's all.

Answer 4

Install setuptools and try again.

try command:

sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools

Answer 5

For python3 is:

sudo apt-get install -y python3-setuptools

Answer 6

The question mentions Windows, and the accepted answer also works for Ubuntu, but for those who found this question coming from a Redhat flavor of Linux, this did the trick:

sudo yum install -y python-setuptools