[Tutor] how to uninstall distutils?

Comer Duncan comer.duncan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 21:54:47 CET 2012


Wow, I screwed up.  I meant docutils rather than distutils !!  Sorry
for the crazy fingers.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Comer Duncan <comer.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have distutils 0.9 install under Python 2.7. I want to uninstall it.
>  I am on a Macbook pro running Lion. The site-packages directory is in
> /Lib/Python/2.7/site-packages.  There distutils exists along with a
> lot of other stuff  I have installed.  I do not have pip installed and
> in fact installed distutils 0.9 from the distutils directory by
> running as usual sudo python2.7 setup.py install.  I am unsure whether
> I can just remove the distutils stuff in the site-packages directory
> and do so safely.  Can you please advise me on the safe way to
> completely remove distutils?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Comer


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