What to do after upgrading Python…
…through prepackaged binary from python.org. As opposed to using virtualenv.
This post is pretty much a self-reminder post. I was upgrading Python to 2.7.2 from 2.6.1 on OS X Snow Leopard.
cd /tmp # fix pip curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py sudo python /tmp/get-pip.py # Fix setuptools # Download the appropriate .egg from here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools curl -O http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg#md5=fe1f997bc722265116870bc7919059ea sudo python /tmp/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg # Fix distribute curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py sudo python distribute_setup.py