easy_install with various versions of python installed, mac osx

Question

I have various versions of python on a mac OSX 10.6 machine, some of them installed with macports:

> python_select -l
Available versions:
current none pyt         


        

Answer 1

If you want your "easy_install" match your updated python version, follow these steps:

Download the corresponding .egg file at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#files Run it as if it were a shell script: sh setuptools-0.6c9-py2.7.egg This will install the new "easy_install" executable, compatible with your current version of python.

Hope this helps.

(more details at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#cygwin-mac-os-x-linux-other)

Answer 2

Be sure to use the -prefix= option on that shell script to control where your easy_install version lands.