I'm stumped by my inability to install setuptools 0.9.7 on Windows 7,64, python 2.7.2. On running ez_setup.py I got the error: Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.9.7.tar.gz Extracting in c:\users\paul\appdata\local\temp\tmptm3fqf Now working in c:\users\paul\appdata\local\temp\tmptm3fqf\setuptools-0.9.7 Installing Setuptools Something went wrong during the installation. See the error message above. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Paul\Documents\pyscripts\ez_setup.py", line 264, in <module> sys.exit(main()) SystemExit: 2
Because python is installed down in c:\python27\arcgis10.1, I thought I'd try adding an environmental variable %PYTHON_PATH% and append it to %PATH%, but I got the same messages as above. But at least I can start python from any folder now. Could it be that the python that ArcGIS installs is 32 bit, but the version of setuptools I downloaded is 64 bit, that somehow the download site sensed my OS?