[Pythonmac-SIG] How do I install packages?

[Jack Jansen]

> So I downloaded PyXML-0.6.1, hoping that it would be a newer version. 
> But how do I install it?  Is it possible to run the "setup.py" script 
> somehow?  Will it work?  Is there a recommended method for doing this?

You have to read the distutils documentation. Distutils and Mac can partially 
work together, but it isn't seamless yet. People are working on it, so for the 
next MacPython release it should indeed be as simple as running setup.py.

Although, of course, there's always the problem that most distributions will 
need a C compiler, which Unix people usually have but Mac people hardly ever.
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