<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 January 2012 21:02, Gene Leynes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gleynes@gmail.com">gleynes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>Sorry for asking a basic question that had already been answered. If I had seen a link to a searchable archive of this help list on the main iPython site, then I would have used that first!</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br>Don't worry, these things happen, and in fact I didn't find this problem with a few searches on the mailing list. Just to nitpick, though: the search box on the top right of the website includes the mailing lists.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Problem 2) I didn't have "setuptools" installed, which I guess iPython uses (and other libraries also use this, so it's probably good to have).</div>
<div>Solution to problem 2) I had to run the setuptools installation. A very good explanation of this is in the *answers* in this URL:</div>
<div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1756721/what-is-causing-importerror-no-module-named-pkg-resources-after-upgrade-of-pyth" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1756721/what-is-causing-importerror-no-module-named-pkg-resources-after-upgrade-of-pyth</a></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br>Nowadays you probably want distribute, a fork of setuptools that's actively maintained. Instructions here:<br><a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute#installation-instructions">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute#installation-instructions</a><br>
<br>We think distribute/setuptools is necessary on Windows to create the start menu shortcuts, but we'd love to be proved wrong on this. The core developers mostly use Linux and Mac, so there's certainly room for contributions for better Windows support.<br>
<br>Best wishes,<br>Thomas<br>