distribute

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

You can do this without installing anything into python itself. You don’t need sudo or any privileges. You don’t need to edit any files. Install virtualenv into a bootstrap virtual environment. Use the that virtual environment to create more. Since virtualenv ships with pip and distribute, you get everything from one install. Download virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv … Read more

Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?

As of May 2022, most of the other answers to this question are several years out-of-date. When you come across advice on Python packaging issues, remember to look at the date of publication, and don’t trust out-of-date information. The Python Packaging User Guide is worth a read. Every page has a “last updated” date displayed, … Read more