So I'm trying to download ez_setup.py according to the instructions for Mac here:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#unix-based-systems-including-mac-os-x
Am I just supposed to run:
wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python
If so, I get a syntax error (carrot points to the s in "https"). Any ideas what's going on here?
Thanks for the help, Mariogs
Sounds like you're running this command from within the Python shell. Run it instead from the command line shell (Terminal), and you should be good to go.
Update
Unfortunately, wget
is not installed by default on OS X. You can install for example using homebrew: brew install wget
, but that would require you to first install homebrew (which may have conveniences for other software later though).
Instead, you can use curl
as a replacement for wget
:
curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py | python
Note that curl
automatically sends its output to stdout
, which means that you don't those -O -
options.
NB: you may need to prepend sudo
to that line:
curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py | sudo python