[Distutils] ez_setup.py can not get setuptools

[Chris Barker]

ez_setup.py is pretty darn old.

Any reason you can't:

python -m pip install setuptools

?

-CHB


On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Benedek Zoltan via Distutils-SIG <
distutils-sig at python.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know what happened recently. Usually I install setuptools by a
> script using the ez_setup.py script.
>
> Recently I get an error:
>
> Downloading
> https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-21.0.0.zip
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 415, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main())
>   File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 411, in main
>     archive = download_setuptools(**_download_args(options))
>   File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 336, in download_setuptools
>     downloader(url, saveto)
>   File "downloads/ez_setup.py", line 287, in download_file_insecure
>     src = urlopen(url)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 161, in urlopen
>     return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 469, in open
>     response = meth(req, response)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 579, in http_response
>     'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 507, in error
>     return self._call_chain(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 441, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 587, in
> http_error_default
>     raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
> urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> For now I can copy the package from an old virtualenv, but I'd appreciate
> a better solution/advise.
>
> Thanks
> Zoltan
>
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