Well..
I think I can fix this by editing ez_setup.py
adding oneline after pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound is caught, in
use_setuptools()
del pkg_resources, sys.modules['pkg_resources']
Not sure if this makes sense.
A patch based on 0.6c9.
diff --git a/python/ez_setup.py b/python/ez_setup.py
index b7a9849..cef3557 100755
--- a/python/ez_setup.py
+++ b/python/ez_setup.py
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ def use_setuptools(
del pkg_resources, sys.modules['pkg_resources'] # reload ok
return do_download()
except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
+ del pkg_resources, sys.modules['pkg_resources'] # reload ok
return do_download()
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Pherl Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> print sys.path shows the egg is the first item.
> ['setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg', '', '/usr/lib/python2.6',
> '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk',
> '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload',
> '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', ....]
>
>
> print pkg_resources.__file__ shows
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.pyc
>
> print setuptools.__file__ shows
> setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/__init__.py
>
> Hmm, then it's strange.. Kenton (cc-ed) also got the same problem when
> running this on Ubuntu + python 2.6.
> The pkg_resources is from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/, while the egg
> should have a higher import priority than /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
> in sys.path...
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> At 04:42 PM 1/12/2011 +0800, Pherl Liu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I got some error messages when using ez_setup to download and use the
>>> easy_install.
>>>
>>> # setup.py
>>> from ez_setup import use_setuptools
>>> use_setuptools()
>>>
>>> from setuptools import setup
>>>
>>> setup(name = "blabla",
>>> test_suite = "some_test",
>>> namespace_package = ["some_namespace"],
>>> # many other options
>>> )
>>>
>>>
>>> So I guess there might be some import problem in my machine (ubuntu
>>> lucid) that the pkg_resources.py cannot be loaded from the egg?
>>>
>>
>> Try running this script in your project directory:
>>
>>
>> from ez_setup import use_setuptools
>> use_setuptools()
>>
>> import sys, setuptools, pkg_resources
>> print sys.path
>> print pkg_resources.__file__
>> print setuptools.__file__
>>
>> This should tell us what's going on with your "import problem" more
>> specifically. ;-)
>>
>
>
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