Python can't locate distutils_path on Mac OSX

Question

I\'ve been using virtualenv + pip for python development. I\'m not sure what happened, but suddenly whenever I try to run a command-line tool or import libraries, I get this er

Answer 1

I have used a similar approach of Nat Goodspeed.

But I've copied all *.py files.

Download the same version of your system python, 2.7.2 in my case:

$ python --version

Download it and unpack it. http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tar.bz2

# -n copy only missing files, -r recursively
$ sudo cp -rn ~/Downloads/Python-2.7.2/Lib/* /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/