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I get the following errors, I've placed [my name] for anonymity:

>>> python /Users/[myname]/Desktop/setuptools-0.6c11/ez_setup.py 

  File "<stdin>", line 1

    python /Users/[myname]/Desktop/setuptools-0.6c11/ez_setup.py 

                                                   ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

If you can't see the ^ is under the 11.

Or I get this error:

>>> python /Users/[myname]/Desktop/EZ_tutorial/ez_setup.py 

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

NameError: name 'python' is not defined

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The ez_setup.py script may or may not work depending on your environment. If not, follow the instructions . In particular, from the shell, make sure that the python 2.6 you installed is now invoked by the command python:

$ python

Python 2.6.4 (r264:75821M, Oct 27 2009, 19:48:32) 

[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> ^D

If not, modify your shell's PATH environment variable. Then download the setuptools 2.6 python egg from , change to your brower's download directory, and run the downloaded script:

$ cd ~/Downloads # substitute the appropriate directory name

$ sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg