Bob Ippolito (@etrepum) on Haskell, Python, Erlang, JavaScript, etc.
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Single-line setuptools install

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For those of you just starting out with setuptools, here's a quick way to install it. After running this, you'll have access to easy_install for all of your other installation needs:

python -c "import urllib; urllib.main()" \
http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py \
| python - -U setuptools

Note that this will execute Python code from a remote host without any kind of authenticity check. Use at your own risk. Only tested on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux (with Python 2.3 and 2.4).