I must say I am quite disappointed with the complexities involved in setting 
up 3rd party packages within a python environment. I have been looking into 
automating some tasks using python/ssh via paramiko. I tried using 
'easy_install' to download it and it looks like that wasn't even installed 
with the basic python install. Perhaps I have to download this other package 
called 'setuptools' first - not sure.

Anyways, I pretty much gave up and found 2 java libs, one of which I was able 
to get up & running from within jython in 5 mins.

what's the story with python's package management these days? easy_install, 
setuptools, etc .. what are they and how are they supposed to be used? If devs 
can't figure this morass out, how are users supposed to?
-- 
Nimret Sandhu
http://www.nimret.com
http://www.nimsoft.biz

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