ez_setup.py is pretty darn old.

Any reason you can't:

python -m pip install setuptools

?

-CHB


On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Benedek Zoltan via Distutils-SIG <distutils-sig@python.org> wrote:
Hi,

I don't know what happened recently. Usually I install setuptools by a script using the ez_setup.py script.

Recently I get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 415, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 411, in main
    archive = download_setuptools(**_download_args(options))
  File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 336, in download_setuptools
    downloader(url, saveto)
  File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 287, in download_file_insecure
    src = urlopen(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 161, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 469, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 579, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 507, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 441, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 587, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

For now I can copy the package from an old virtualenv, but I'd appreciate a better solution/advise.

Thanks
Zoltan

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