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copied!<p>I had a similar error message after following similar steps. I suspect it's because I tried to install the distribute module, and it tried to install a new version of setuptools which didn't quite work because it failed to correctly override the Mac OS X supplied setuptools. But that's only a suspicion.</p> <p>I fixed my problem by doing the following. I found that the directory <code>/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python</code> had 4 files with .OLD in the name. When I did a compare with similarly named files without the .OLD from when things worked (via Time Machine) I found that they were the same except for the name. So I did the following renames:</p> <blockquote> <p>setuptools.OLD.1305936263.57 <strong>-></strong> setuptools<br /> setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg-info.OLD.1305936263.57 <strong>-></strong> setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg-info<br /> pkg_resources.py.OLD.1305936263.57 <strong>-></strong> pkg_resources<br /> site.py.OLD.1305936263.59 <strong>-></strong> site.py</p> </blockquote> <p>I had to use the command line and <code>sudo mv</code> because the files are owned by root. For example: <code>sudo mv setuptools.OLD.1305936263.57 setuptools</code>. You'll have to enter your password.</p> <p>The other thing I did was clean the <code>/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages</code> directory. I used Time Machine to set it back to its pre-messed up state. If you don't have Time Machine, then you should be able to recover if you delete any files or folders beginning with distribute, easy-install, pip, pkg_resources, setuptools and site.</p> <p>If that doesn't do the trick, uninstall any modules you can from that directory. For example use <code>pip uninstall</code> if you installed modules with pip. The reason to do this is that installation can copy files into <code>usr/local/bin</code> and other places that pip will remove for you.</p> <p>Next it's time to remove any remaining modules. Rename the folder (in case there's something you want later) and make a new empty one.</p> <p>Reinstall the modules you want and with a little luck you're back in business...</p>

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