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Installation instructions for Python using MacPorts
http://astrofrog.github.com/macports-python/
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Installing packages not in macports #2

Closed stargaser closed 13 years ago

stargaser commented 13 years ago

I have a question about the section of the documentation "Installing packages not in macports". Here it is explained how to properly use python setup.py. Can't we alternatively use easy_install, specifically /opt/local/bin/easy_install-2.7 --user -U or is this not recommended?

astrofrog commented 13 years ago

You should be able to use --user with both easy_install-2.7 and pip-2.7. I will update the documentation to state this.