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Re: Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools

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Date 2013-09-19 15:06 -0500
Subject Re: Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools
From Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.162.1379621239.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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> Question 4: If the Windows MSI installer indeed lacks Setuptools, what is the best way to install it from the command line in a future-proof manner (on Windows)? I am imagining something like this:
>
> wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
> python ez_setup.py
>
> However, (1) wget is not a Windows command. What is the Windows command? And (2) is that URL the best possible URL? Or will that URL only download an old version, and there is a better URL for new versions?

I am not a Windows person, but wouldn't pip do the trick?

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/1.4.1

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Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools cython@m.allo.ws - 2013-09-19 12:51 -0700
  Re: Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-09-19 15:06 -0500
    Re: Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools cython@m.allo.ws - 2013-09-19 13:31 -0700
      Re: Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-09-19 15:42 -0500
  RE: Using the MSI installer on Windows: Setting PATH and Setuptools "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com.dmarc.invalid> - 2013-09-19 22:22 +0000

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