On 10/7/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 07:05 AM 10/7/2007 -0500, Mike wrote:

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Phillip,

On 10/6/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

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At 02:25 PM 10/6/2007 -0500, Mike wrote:

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Hi,

That's what I thought, but before I installed the distutils package manually, I got this:

L:\Temp\pycrypto-2.0.1>python setup.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 8, in ? from setuptools import setup ImportError: No module named setuptools

And I get that now that I've deleted the distutils-egg file. Do I need to download setuptools from some place?

Distutils comes with Python, setuptools does not. For setuptools installation info, see:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

I'm usually not this dense when it comes to Python. I'm just new to the distribution process. I did as you said and now I'm back to the first error I posted. I deleted the distutils-egg and the setuptools-egg directories.

Try this:

python -c "import distutils; print distutils.__version__, distutils.__file__"

This should print a version and a filename. The filename should be something like 'c:\Python24\Lib\distutils\...' (*without* site-packages between the Lib and distutils), and the version should be 1.0.3 or higher.

If the location is different, you haven't uninstalled it correctly. If the location is correct but the version is less than 1.0.3, you installed the distutils over the version that came with Python, and will have to reinstall Python to fix it.

Here is what was returned: 2.4.1 L:\Python24\lib\distutils\__init__.py I did notice that if I try running Python from the command line, it loads the ActiveState version of Python 2.4.3 rather than the "normal" 2.4.3 version. I don't suppose that could be the problem, could it? I checked the path that ActiveState uses and it points to the same location though... I'm at a loss. Mike