Re: python2.2 or python2.3?

Wari Wahab writes:
 > This just means that your particular python installation does not have 
 > distutils installed.

Thanks for the reply.  I'm running Debian, and they break the python
package into a -dev package.  I figured it out on my own, by searching
for python using dselect (ack, spit!).

May I suggest that you avoid this problem in the future by doing
something like this:

try:
    from distutils.core import setup
except ImportError:
    import os
    from sys import version_info as v
    if v[0] > 2 or (v[0] = 2 and v[1] >= 1):
        print """distutils isn't present.  Perhaps you need to install a
python-dev or python-devel package?"""
        os.exit(1)
    else:
        print "Must be Python 2.1 at least"
        os.exit(1)

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