Installation fails on Fedora 17

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$ sudo pip-python install rapid-spring --upgrade
Downloading/unpacking rapid-spring
  Running setup.py egg_info for package rapid-spring
    /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'executables'
      warnings.warn(msg)
    /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires'
      warnings.warn(msg)
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
       or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
       or: -c --help-commands
       or: -c cmd --help

    error: invalid command 'egg_info'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'executables'

  warnings.warn(msg)

/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires'

  warnings.warn(msg)

usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]

   or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]

   or: -c --help-commands

   or: -c cmd --help

error: invalid command 'egg_info'

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log

And in pip.log:

Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 126, in main
    self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 223, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 986, in prepare_files
    req_to_install.run_egg_info()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 222, in run_egg_info
    command_desc='python setup.py egg_info')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 254, in call_subprocess
    % (command_desc, proc.returncode))
InstallationError: Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1