Hmm, I think it now only delete pkg_resource when pkg_resrouces.VersionConflict is caught, but the fix should be also delete pkg_resources when pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound is caught. The code looks like: try: pkg_resources.require("setuptools>="+version); return except pkg_resources.VersionConflict, e: if was_imported: print >>sys.stderr, ( "The required version of setuptools (>=%s) is not available, and\n" "can't be installed while this script is running. Please install\n" " a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U setuptools'." "\n\n(Currently using %r)" ) % (version, e.args[0]) sys.exit(2) else: del pkg_resources, sys.modules['pkg_resources'] # reload ok return do_download() except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: *del pkg_resources, sys.modules['pkg_resources']* # added this line. return do_download() On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:53 AM, P.J. Eby wrote:

At 03:40 PM 1/19/2011 +0800, Pherl Liu wrote:

...

Well..

I think I can fix this by editing ez_setup.py

adding oneline after pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound is caught, in use_setuptools()

del pkg_resources, sys.modules['pkg_resources']

Not sure if this makes sense.

That's already in current versions of ez_setup.py; 0.6c9 is several years old. I'd suggest you use the svn externals to keep it up-to-date. See:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#managing-multiple-project...

for details.