pip giving "ImportError: No module named setuptools" but I can import setuptools in python interpreter
Your pip
doesn't seem to be in agreement with your Python. Compare:
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 107, in main
to
Installed /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
If python2.7 has setuptools, then you should have
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/easy_install-2.7
available, in which case
easy_install-2.7 pip
should give you pip-2.7
.
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Updated on June 17, 2022Comments
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Hartley Brody almost 2 years
I'm getting setup on a new mac and I was humming along just fine, installing pip and a few packages. When suddenly, every pip command I'd try to run would throw
Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 107, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 248, in run import setuptools ImportError: No module named setuptools
I figured I had accidentally deleted a directory or something, so I tried reinstalling setuptools, following the advice of other answers on this site. I downloaded the setuptools egg from here and ran it like a shell script. Got this output:
Processing setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Removing /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Copying setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages setuptools 0.6c11 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing easy_install script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin Installing easy_install-2.7 script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin Installed /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c11 Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c11
Now, if I start an interactive python session, I can
import setuptools
without error, but pip (and other command line scripts) complain that it's not installed. Any ideas why Python seems to be finding it, but not other scripts?If it helps, this is what's in
sys.path
:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages