Question

I just downloaded installed python 3.3 for Mac OS. I used the standard package from python.org

I found no package installing tool in python 3.3. No pip, easy_install, setuptools.
Looks like a boot strap problem: how can I install a package-installing-package without a package-installing-package?

I’m I missing something obvious? Or do I need to take further steps in order to have a package installer?

Answer 1

Distribute supplies an installer script, distribute_setup.py. So, on Unix-y systems with curl, you can use the following commands:

curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
python3.3 distribute_setup.py
easy_install pip    # easy_install is part of distribute

If you don’t have curl, download the script another way and run the other two commands.