To install setuptools, you will need to download ez_setup.py and run it 
in the command line as "python ez_setup.py" -

   http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

If that doesn't work for some reason, try other options at 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309412/how-to-setup-setuptools-for-python-26-on-windows 
(URL from a simple google query which you should make use of hereupon)

...

We have already started working on PyPM (Python Package Manager); 
meanwhile once you have setuptools installed, may I suggest one of the 
following source-based installers?

   - easy_install: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
   - pip: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip



On 4/16/2009 7:23 AM, Bob Kline wrote:
>  We've got ActiveState Python 2.6 installed on a Windows XP box, and I
>  pulled down the latest archgenxml package (2.2) in order to get it
>  running under this installation of Python.  I unpacked the tarball for
>  the package and tried running `python setup.py build' but got an
>  ImportError exception: "no module named setuptools."  So back to Google,
>  where I find http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools, which says "[For
>  Windows] install setuptools using the provided .exe installer."  I go
>  down to the bottom of the page and I see that there is no .exe installer
>  for Python 2.6.  All there is for that version of Python is
>  setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg.  How do I get this installed under
>  ActiveState Python?  I get the impression from the references to "Python
>  Eggs" on the setuptools page that setuptools is a utility for installing
>  Python Eggs.  So we're supposed to use a utility that isn't installed
>  yet to install that utility.  Now that ActiveState has officially thrown
>  in the towel on ever bringing back its Python version of ppm, we're left
>  with a pretty sad story as far as installing third-party Python packages
>  in Windows.  I thought Perl was supposed to be the world in which the
>  more ways to do a simple task, the better.  I would guess that there is
>  a minority of Python users who know all there is to know about all the
>  different ways there are to get Python packages installed, and for the
>  rest of us it's just chaos.  Why doesn't ActiveState's Python (remember
>  the slogan "batteries included"?) come with the tools needed to install
>  third-party packages?  Have we stumbled into some messy political turf
>  battle over installer philosophies, or is this just an oversight?
> 
>  Thanks, and sorry for the rant, but this Achilles heel in Python is
>  pretty frustrating.
> 

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