Question

I don’t have experience in downloading libraries, so any help is appreciated. I’ve got a fresh install of Python3.3 and am trying to get IPython for 64bit Windows 7. The IPython .exe installer ran fine and completed normally, but I can’t access the program. I looked through their documentation, and tried the commands there, but

$ python setup.py install

returns invalid syntax, highlighting “setup”. I thought the fix might be in the distribute library mentioned on the page, so I went to go try and get that first. However, using the script from distribute’s install page revealed it’s own errors, namely

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\distribute_setup.py", line 541, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "C:\Python33\distribute_setup.py", line 537, in main
    tarball = download_setuptools(download_base=options.download_base)
  File "C:\Python33\distribute_setup.py", line 200, in download_setuptools
    log.warn("Downloading %s", url)
  File "C:\Python33\lib\distutils\log.py", line 47, in warn
    self._log(WARN, msg, args)
  File "C:\Python33\lib\distutils\log.py", line 30, in _log
    if stream.errors == 'strict':
AttributeError: errors

I’ve been at it for a couple hours now, and I’m fresh out of ideas. What next?

Answer 1

It looks like you ran into Python bug 12967. You need to run distribute_setup.py outside of IDLE (i.e. in a command prompt).