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    <p>I'm getting setup on a new mac and I was humming along just fine, installing pip and a few packages. When suddenly, every pip command I'd try to run would throw</p> <pre><code>Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 107, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 248, in run import setuptools ImportError: No module named setuptools </code></pre> <p>I figured I had accidentally deleted a directory or something, so I tried reinstalling setuptools, following the advice of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/4111811/625840">other answers</a> on this site. I downloaded the setuptools egg from <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#files" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and ran it like a shell script. Got this output:</p> <pre><code>Processing setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Removing /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Copying setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages setuptools 0.6c11 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing easy_install script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin Installing easy_install-2.7 script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin Installed /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c11 Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c11 </code></pre> <p>Now, if I start an interactive python session, I can <code>import setuptools</code> without error, but pip (and other command line scripts) complain that it's not installed. Any ideas why Python seems to be finding it, but not other scripts?</p> <p>If it helps, this is what's in <code>sys.path</code>:</p> <pre><code>/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages </code></pre>
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