Question

i am new to python and i am installing python pakages but i get this error

Error:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "setup.py", line 3 in <module>
        from setuptools import setup, find_packages
    ImportError: No module named setuptools

but when iam installing setuptools and run it i get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python32/yyy.py", line 7, in <module>
    execfile(convert_path('setuptools/command/__init__.py'), d)
NameError: name 'execfile' is not defined

i am windows 7 user . if any 1 have experience about it please figure it out
and whats this mean
Unpack the archive, enter the pyserial-x.y directory and run ? mean i have to install it from command prompt

i want to use twitter api in python . when i run its setup file it show error . i open it with notepad and copy the setup code and paste it in script and save it with yyy.py and run it and now it give me the error like this

File "C:\Python26\twittersetup.py",
line 13, in <module> 
long_description=open("./README", "r").read(), 
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './README'

this errorr in python 3.2

File "C:/Python32/t.py",
line 9, in <module> 
setup(name='twitter',
NameError: name 'setup' is not defined

AND NOW AFTER MANY SURVIVALS I GOT THIS ERROR

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Sheikh\Desktop\twitter-1.9.0 (1).tar\twitter-1.9.0\setup.py",
line 47, 
in <module>""",File "C:\Python32\lib\distutils\core.py",
line 136, in setup
raise SystemExit(gen_usage(dist.script_name) + "\nerror: %s" % msg)
SystemExit: usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help
error: no commands supplied

Answer 1

First you need to install setuptools from pypi and then you need to run setup.py file through commands using cmd. Using setup.py –help-commands in Windows tell you the step and commands.