It seems that the message was blocked by moderator because of my e-mail being too big... I'll just copy-paste how I fixed the problem in easy_install.py here:

empty_pat = re.compile(r'^[\t ]*\r?$') comment_pat = re.compile(r'[\t ]*#')

...

if os.path.exists(sitepy): log.debug("Checking existing site.py in %s", self.install_dir) f = open(sitepy, 'rb') current = f.read() f.close() distutils_error = False lines = current.split("\n")

for line in lines: if empty_pat.match(line) or comment_pat.match(line): continue else: if not line.startswith('def __boot():'): distutils_error = True break

if distutils_error: raise DistutilsError( "%s is not a setuptools-generated site.py; please" " remove it." % sitepy )

On 10/8/07, Lauri Hallila laurihallila@gmail.com wrote:

Hello!

I noticed a small problem in setuptools... workingenv (version 0.6.5-py2.4), in some instances, adds a comment-line "# Duplicating setuptools' site.py..." into the beginning of site.py (workingenv.py , line 1214). Problem is that easy_install.py checks if the existing file site.py starts with "def __boot():", and if it doesn't, it raises an error.

I fixed the problem in my own environment by skipping empty and comment-lines in easy_install.py (fixed file attached).

I just thought to inform you of the problem... feel free to take my fix into setuptools if you like my way to fix the problem.

Best regards, Lauri Hallila