help with Distutils install please?

[hylton]

hi,
I want to install numpy and apparently I need to use Distutils to do
this. 

[hylton at localhost Distutils-0.1.3]$ python setup.py install
running install
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 13, in ?
    setup (name = "Distutils",
  File "distutils/core.py", line 102, in setup
    raise SystemExit, "error: %s: %s" % (exc.filename, exc.strerror)
AttributeError: filename

This is from a user dir on RH6.0 box. is this maybe a path problem? 

Hylton