Indeed, if there is a folder called "foobar" in your current directory, and you run "easy_install foobar", easy_install will assume you are trying to install the package in the folder "foobar", which fails if it is not a package. One solution to that is to change your current directory to a directory that does not include the folder "foobar".
//Lennart On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Martin Fiers <martin.fi...@intec.ugent.be> wrote: > Hello! When a folder inside a user's home directory has the same name as a > package, then installation fails. > > What steps will reproduce the problem? > 1. On a Windows system, start with a vanilla python, with pip not installed > 2. Create the folder pip in C:\Users\[username] (so now there's a folder > C:\Users\[username]\pip) > 3. run easy_install pip > > (the error is reproduced with any other package as well, as long as there's > a home folder). > > What is the expected output? What do you see instead? > pip is installed > Instead, this gives the error: > Couldn't find a setup script in /home/[username]/pip > > What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? > Windows 7, Python 2.7.5, with ez_setup.py called so setuptools is installed. > > Please provide any additional information below. > This is rather annoying, since our software creates a folder in the user's > home directory. > But also the pip packages creates a log folder. So when I accidentially > remove pip and want to > re-install, easy_install does not work. > > Thanks very much, > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
