If you're using Ubuntu 10.10, the "python-setuptools" is Distribute, and it's working well. "python-virtualenv" and "virtualenvwrapper" are also recent versions -- I don't have to install them manually anymore.
--Mike On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Leo Shklovskii <[email protected]> wrote: > Strongly agree. Only use easy_install to install pip and forget it from > there. > > Or just use Pete's plan :-) > > -- > --Leo > > Pete wrote: >> >> 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] >>> <mailto:[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 <http://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 >> > -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
