[Distutils] bdist_wininst TypeError

[Mike]

Phillip,

On 10/6/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 02:25 PM 10/6/2007 -0500, Mike wrote:
> >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. Maybe that "Easy Setup" somehow overwrote
some of the original installation too?

Thanks for all your help.

Mike