[Distutils] Bootstrap use_setuptools() in ez_setup.py failure

[Pherl Liu]

print sys.path shows the egg is the first item.
['setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg', '', '/usr/lib/python2.6',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', ....]


print pkg_resources.__file__ shows
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.pyc

print setuptools.__file__ shows
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/__init__.py

Hmm, then it's strange.. Kenton (cc-ed) also got the same problem when
running this on Ubuntu + python 2.6.
The pkg_resources is from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/, while the egg
should have a higher import priority than /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
in sys.path...

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> At 04:42 PM 1/12/2011 +0800, Pherl Liu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got some error messages when using ez_setup to download and use the
>> easy_install.
>>
>> # setup.py
>> from ez_setup import use_setuptools
>> use_setuptools()
>>
>> from setuptools import setup
>>
>> setup(name = "blabla",
>>      test_suite = "some_test",
>>      namespace_package = ["some_namespace"],
>>            # many other options
>> )
>>
>>
>> So I guess there might be some import problem in my machine (ubuntu lucid)
>> that the pkg_resources.py cannot be loaded from the egg?
>>
>
> Try running this script in your project directory:
>
>
>   from ez_setup import use_setuptools
>   use_setuptools()
>
>   import sys, setuptools, pkg_resources
>   print sys.path
>   print pkg_resources.__file__
>   print setuptools.__file__
>
> This should tell us what's going on with your "import problem" more
> specifically.  ;-)
>
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