On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a fork of setuptools called "distribute" that supports Python 3. Thanks, I guess I'll give this a try tonight! > setup.py is a file that should be included at the top-level of the > .tar files you downloaded. Generally, to install something in that > manner, you would navigate to that top-level folder and run "python > setup.py install". If you have multiple Python versions installed and > want to install the package for a specific version, then you would use > that version of Python to run the setup.py file. The only files included in the .tar.gz file is a .tar file of the same name. So I guess the setup option doesn't exist for these particular packages. I'll try "distribute" tonight when I have some time to mess with all of this. So much work just to get a 3rd party module installed! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
