[Distutils] errors trying to get setuptools 2.0.2

[Erik Bray]

I'm not sure why your powershell is blowing up, but try running

python ez_setup.py --insecure

instead.

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Malik Rumi <malik.a.rumi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is what I did and the response:
>
> c:\>
>
> c:\>ez_setup.py
>
> Downloading
>
>
> https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-2.0.
>
> 2.tar.gz
>
> Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception
>
>
> occurred
>
> during a WebClient request."
>
> At line:1 char:1
>
> + (new-object
>
> System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://pypi.python.org/packages
>
>
> ...
>
> +
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> ~~~~~~
>
> ~~~
>
>     + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [],
>
>
> MethodInvocationException
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>     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 361, in <module>
>
>     sys.exit(main())
>
>   File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 357, in main
>
>     downloader_factory=options.downloader_factory)
>
>   File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 282, in
>
>
> download_setuptools
>
>     downloader(url, saveto)
>
>   File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 169, in
>
>
> download_file_powershell
>
>     _clean_check(cmd, target)
>
>   File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 152, in _clean_check
>
>     subprocess.check_call(cmd)
>
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call
>
>     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
>
> subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['powershell', '-Command',
>
>
> "(new-object
>
> System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile
>
>
> ('https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/se
>
> tuptools/setuptools-2.0.2.tar.gz', 'c:\\\\setuptools-2.0.2.tar.gz')"]'
>
>
> returned
>
> non-zero exit status 1
>
>
> c:\>
>
> The parts in red were in red in my terminal window. I am on windows 8.1 and
> I am brand new. Less than a week ago, I installed Distribute because someone
> on Django Google Groups recommended it to me, along with virtualenv and pip.
> Then today - well, last night since it was a few hours ago - I found out
> Distribute is deprecated. So I am trying to follow the uninstall
> instructions but this is what I got. Just for kicks I ran it again just now
> - same result. Please help. I took time off from work Thursday and Friday to
> get all this set up have been at this all weekend only to be stumped again.
> And no, I do not have Django up and running yet. Thank you.
>
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