Greg Ward,

     I am reading the documentation you wrote titled "Distributing Python Modules".  In section 2.1 (A Simple Example), I made a simple script named foo.py but I am not able to get it running following the steps you provided.  The error I receive is listed below and I have attached the files.  I am executing this in a console prompt using Windows XP as the Operating System.  Could you please tell me what I am doing incorrectly?

2.1  A Simple Example

foo.py

# A setup script.
#

from distutils.core import setup
setup(name="foo",
      version="1.0",
      py_modules=["foo"])

If all you want to do is distribute a module called foo, contained in a file foo.py,
then your setup script can be as simple as this:

from distutils.core import setup
setup(name="foo",
      version="1.0",
      py_modules=["foo"])

To create a source distribution for this module, you would create a setup script,
Setup.py, containing the above code, and run:

python setup.py sdist

The following error is displayed:

C:\Program Files\Python24>python setup.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 7, in ?
py_modules=["foo"])
File "C:\Program Files\Python24\distutils\core.py", line 101,
in setup _setup_distribution=dist=Klass(attrs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python24\distutils\dist.py", line 130,
in __init__settattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name))
Attribute Error:  Distribution Metadata instance has no attribute 'get___doc___'

<<foo.py>>

<<setup.py>>

Thank you very much for your time.

Michael Delaney
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