Snow Leopard, MacPorts and easy_install
Snow Leopard comes built-in with Python 2.6.1 which does not satisfy my ego, so I grabbed 2.6.4 from Mac Ports. All is fine, until I stumble upon a Python package that is not available as a port, yet appears in Python's official package index.
This makes pretty obvious that simply calling easy_install will not work. MacPort's Python doesn't look in the same path as Apple's Python.
sudo port installed tells me that py26-setuptools for MacPorts' Python is installed, so it should have it's own easy_install. After some snooping around I found it here:
/opt/local/bin/easy_install-2.6
Case solved, let the coding continue.
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