Installing setuptools on 64-bit Windows 7
I ran into some problems installing setuptools 0.6c11 for Python 2.7 on my Windows 7 (64 bit) machine. When I ran the Windows installer downloaded from the python package index, it gave me the error message “Python version 2.7 required, which was not found in the registry.”. And I’m quite sure Python 2.7 is installed.
Only then I noticed I downloaded a win32 installer - at least it says so in the filename: setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe. I could find no 64-bits installer on pypi.
There appears to be a bug involving setuptools on 64 bits Windows. It is solved according to the tracker, but apparently, nobody has created a 64 bit installer yet.
A quick Google search brought me to a post on hwiecher’s blog where he (?) describes a very simple solution:
- Download ez_setup.py from the PEAK site. (I found it here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py.)
- Run it! (python [path-to]ez_setup.py
Yep, it’s that simple.