Re: setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Trent Mick
Bob Kline wrote: > Why doesn't ActiveState's Python (remember > the slogan "batteries included"?) come with the tools needed to install > third-party packages? Have we stumbled into some messy political turf > battle over installer philosophies, or is this just an oversight? Currently ActivePy

Re: setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
To install setuptools, you will need to download ez_setup.py and run it in the command line as "python ez_setup.py" - http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py If that doesn't work for some reason, try other options at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309412/how-to-setup-setuptools-fo

setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Bob Kline
We've got ActiveState Python 2.6 installed on a Windows XP box, and I pulled down the latest archgenxml package (2.2) in order to get it running under this installation of Python. I unpacked the tarball for the package and tried running `python setup.py build' but got an ImportError exception: