Greg We do not have admin rights for our workstations here. After I was able to temporarily obtain admin rights and add python to the Path, your example works. Thanks.

-----Original Message----- From: Michael Delaney Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:20 PM To: 'distutils-sig@python.org' Subject: Distributing Python Modules - Error using foo.py in section 2.1

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.

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