how to install easy_install

[rusi]

On May 13, 11:29 pm, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM, rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried to install easy_install (This is on windows)
> > I downloaded the executable and ran it. It claimed to have done its
> > job.
>
> > But now when I type easy_install at a cmd prompt I get
> > easy_install is not a command...
>
> > [I guess I am a perennial noob to windows, never being able to
> > comprehend the PATH lookup logic (or lack of it)]
>
> > Another related question: I gather that easy_install is being
> > superseded by pypi or some such but I cant find the link...
>
> easy_install is part of the setuptools or distribute package.  I
> assume that one of these is what you installed.
>
> On Windows, the easy_install command is installed into your Python
> Scripts directory, which should be something like
> "C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts" or "C:\Python25\Scripts" depending on your
> Python version.  You just need to find that directory and add it to
> your PATH.
>
> PyPI is the Python package index.  It's a website athttp://pypi.python.org/-- not a replacement for setuptools or
> easy_install, which uses it to look up package metadata.  Setuptools
> is supposed to be superseded by distribute, which may be what you
> heard.

It seems to be something called pip -- Easy_install and plain setup.py
install cant uninstall whereas pip can.  But to install pip you have
to do easy_install pip.
O well :-)