[Distutils] distribute traceback

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No - I don't. And while the error may look similiar to that bug, I think
> that's a red herring.
>
> I have no idea why installing distribute - or any other third party module
> would trigger a bug in a different module in the stdlib, unless the module
> being installed was actively using multiprocessing.

When I have random problem caused by setuptools, it is often caused by
the develop feature. I would first try to uninstall any package in
develop mode

cheers,

David