April 2016
Beginner
156 pages
3h 23m
English
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Preparing the tools
To install setuptools on your system, you need to first download ez_setup.py on your system from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools and then execute this from your command prompt as follows:
$ python ez_setup.py
To test the installation of setuptools, open the Python shell and type the following:
> import setuptools
If the preceding import does not give any error, then we have successfully installed setuptools.