[Distutils] easy_install issues

[Fred G]

Hi PJ,

Great-- thanks! That was a problem and the fact that when I tried to run it
afterwards, I had to go to the Python\Scripts directory, easy_install
loaded into that.

Thanks for the help!

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:38 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Fred G <bayespokerguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi--
> >
> > I was having some difficulties installing easy_install.  I was following
> a
> > tutorial that had me on the command prompt typing
> > C:/easy_tutorial\ez_setup.py
> >
> > but in the tutorial this did something else then what my computer did.
>  For
> > me, a notepad file with a python script opened when I did this, instead
> of
> > actually running anything.
>
> Apparently, your computer's python installation is configured to open
> .py files in notepad, instead of in Python.  Try typing:
>
>     python ez_setup.py
>
> Instead of just ez_setup.py.
>
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