[Distutils] ez_setup.py can not get setuptools

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Fri May 6 12:43:32 EDT 2016


> On May 6, 2016, at 12:31 PM, tritium-list at sdamon.com wrote:
> 
> If you don’t have setuptools, you don’t have pip.

Not true anymore, pip is perfectly capable of running and installing things without setuptools now days. The only time you *need* setuptools installed is if you’re installing from a sdist (and setuptools has wheels, so you can install setuptools with pip withouth setuptools already being installed).

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