Determining version of easy_install/setuptools

Question

I\'m trying to install couchapp, which uses easy_install - and is quite explicit in stating a particular version of easy_install/setuptools is needed: 0.6c6. I seem to have

Answer 1

On Windows, where Python is in the Path:

python -m easy_install --version

For me, I get setuptools 7.0 as the response.

Answer 2

One way would be to look at the actual source file for easy_install. Do

which easy_install

to see where it's located, and then use that path in

less path/to/easy_install

The second line in my easy_install script says:

# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'setuptools==0.6c11','console_scripts','easy_install'

which suggests that I have easy_install version 0.6c11.

Answer 3

This seems to get a lot of hits from google, so I thought I'd update for those folks. I was able to do:

easy_install --version

which produced the output

setuptools 3.4.3

I believe this only works for some (newer?) versions of setuptools