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Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4

From Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
Subject Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4
Date 2014-03-03 22:11 +0000
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On 2014-03-03 21:37, Mark H. Harris wrote:
> On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:32:43 PM UTC-6, Robert Kern wrote:
>
>> Probably. If you want us to help, you need to show us what you tried, tell us
>> what results you expected, and copy-paste the output that you got.
>
>> Robert Kern
>
> hi Robert,  well, I finally came up with trying to find setup().  Its a part of
> distutils.core. So, I tried:
>
> from distutils.core import setup
> from distutils import *
>
> Then I tried to run setup() --help-commands and python3 crashed.
>
> What did I do wrong?   running Py3.3.4

You don't run `setup() --help-commands` in the Python interpreter. 
`--help-commands` is a command-line argument to the setup.py script that you 
will write. It is not Python syntax. Please read the documentation.

   http://docs.python.org/3/distutils/index.html

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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pip and distutils2-1.0a4 "Mark H. Harris" <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 12:10 -0800
  Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-03 20:53 +0000
    Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4 "Mark H. Harris" <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 13:20 -0800
      Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4 Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 21:32 +0000
        Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4 "Mark H. Harris" <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 13:37 -0800
          Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-03 16:44 -0500
          Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4 Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 22:11 +0000
            Re: pip and distutils2-1.0a4 "Mark H. Harris" <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 17:22 -0800

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