[Tutor] Connection time out while attempting to install SOAP

[Kermit Rose]

I attempted to follow instructions from "Dive into Python" to install the
SOAP package.
The first step went ok.

The second step is not yet accomplished.


12.2.2. Installing fpconst
The second library you need is fpconst, a set of constants and functions for
working with IEEE754 double-precision
special values. This provides support for the special values Not-a-Number
(NaN), Positive Infinity (Inf), and
Negative Infinity (-Inf), which are part of the SOAP datatype specification.
Procedure 12.2.
Here is the procedure for installing fpconst:

The download of fpconst failed because

Download the latest version of fpconst from
http://www.analytics.washington.edu/statcomp/projects/rzope/fpconst/


timed out while attempting to reach the web page.


Is this the only site that has this second step of programs.

Has it moved?

Should I keep on trying the same site?

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1.
There are two downloads available, one in .tar.gz format, the other in .zip
format. If you are using
Windows, download the .zip file; otherwise, download the .tar.gz file.
2.
Decompress the downloaded file. On Windows XP, you can right-click on the
file and choose Extract All; on
earlier versions of Windows, you will need a third-party program such as
WinZip. On Mac OS X, you can
double-click the compressed file to decompress it with Stuffit Expander.
3.
4. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory where you
decompressed the fpconst files.
5. Type python setup.py install to run the installation program.
To verify that you installed fpconst correctly, run your Python IDE and
check the version number.