[Distutils] Please help me install.

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Thu Jan 15 09:54:17 CET 2015


Heng,

I'd strongly recommend toy just use Anaconda:

http://continuum.io/downloads

It will do everything you need from one .exe.

cheers,

Chris

On 14/01/2015 03:29, Heng Cheong wrote:
> Dear Python.org,
> I am not a programmer. I don't know how to program. I have Python 3.4. 
> I've installed pandas and matplotlib to IDLE but they are asking for 
> dateutils and six modules. I don't know how to install these modules 
> with pip installer. From your website, funny sentences like "python -m 
> pip install SomePackage" are suggested to install pip in order to be 
> able to install dateutils and six. I don't know where should I 
> copy&paste this "python -m pip install SomePackage" to as I've tried 
> it in the cmd.exe and returned error. I've tried it in Python IDLE and 
> returned error. As I said I don't know programming and such sentence 
> is very alien to me. How can I install dateutil, six and pip without 
> looking like a total idiot? And how do I install such a funny file 
> extension as .whl? I double-click on the .whl file and there is no 
> reaction nor response. I opened the .whl file with winrar and found a 
> pile of .py files which I don't know what to do with them to install. 
> And I can't find any .exe file that I can simply click and install 
> without hassle. Please help me install without looking like an idiot. 
> Thank you.
>
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