Step 0: use distribute instead of setuptools (basically a fork with fixes - setuptools maintainer is... yeah).
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute Step 0.5: use pip (install logs, uninstall support, etc). http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip -------- Dunno what's up with your particular install - I moved from macports to fink about a year ago... On Nov 20, 2010, at 7:48 PM, David Dyck wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Pete <[email protected]> wrote: > While we're on the subject of shells, IPython fans might like bpython. > Autocompletion, highlighting, inline help (docstring display), logging... and > that's more or less it. Much simpler than IPython (which does a *lot* of > other things, including distributed computing). > > http://bpython-interpreter.org/ > > Bpython: It's the shell I always wished IPython would be. > > > Pete - thanks for this link - you'll never know the journey you enabled :-) > > Got the latest macports for macosx from http://www.macports.org/ > Upgraded to python3.1 ( learning a bit about the changes between python2.7 > and 3.1 ) > Investigated system tools "otool -L", "dtrace", > Learned about Pygments ( syntax highlighting package written in Python ) > Got so much useful information from Wikipedia that I send in a contribution > of gratitude ... > > Downloaded and installed Colloguy where I found the helpful folks on > #bpython on irc.freenode.net > > Learned about and started using pastebin for the first time ( > http://bpaste.net/ ) > ( found useful information on "Easy Install" > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall > and Python Eggs http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs ) > > But if anyone has some ideas why bpython doesn't install itself (or a link) > in a place > where it can be found in a reasonable path like python does - I'd sure like > to know. > > http://bpaste.net/show/11380/ > > Thanks, > David
