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What’s the proper way to install pip, virtualenv, and distribute for Python?

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Short Question What is the proper way to install pip, virtualenv, and distribute? Background In my answer to SO question 4314376, I recommended using ez_setup so that you could then install pip and virtualenv as follows: curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py sudo python ez_setup.py sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install virtualenv I originally pulled these instructions from … Read more

Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?

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The Situation I’m trying to port an open-source library to Python 3. (SymPy, if anyone is wondering.) So, I need to run 2to3 automatically when building for Python 3. To do that, I need to use distribute. Therefore, I need to port the current system, which (according to the doctest) is distutils. The Problem Unfortunately, … Read more