[Distutils] bdist_wininst TypeError

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:16 AM 10/6/2007 -0500, Mike wrote:
>I was typing out the distutils package this morning and hit a wall
>within a few minutes of running it.

The current version of distutils is already included with every 
version of Python; you just installed a broken out-of-date version of 
them.  Delete what you installed (presumably a distutils-*.egg file 
or directory), and your system should work again.