Installing setuptools

[patto78]

I want to install the dateutil module to work with Python 3.1. I didn't get very far through this installation however before I was advised that I also needed to install setuptools. I've tried to do this using the commands given below, but am not having any success.

$ tar -xzvf distribute-0.6.19.tar.gz
$ cd distribute-0.6.19
$ python setup.py install

I think the problem might be to do with the fact that on my computer Python 3.1 is not the default version. So my question is how do I point the version of setuptools that I've downloaded in the direction of Python 3.1 (residing in /usr/local/bin) as opposed to at Python 2.6 (residing in /usr/bin)?

[pyTony]

As I see from your prompt, you are working in Linux (et al). Usually python 3 installs also with name python3 in /usr/bin. Easy way to check it is to try to run it from terminal window or type python and see which completion alternatives are available. Then you can find installation place by for example `which python3`.

But for this operation you could just type python3 setup.py install. Hope it works, if not you should find way around it with these hints.