Download - [hot] Ez_setup.py

On Linux or Mac systems, you can use built-in tools like curl or wget to download and run the script in a single step.

For Windows users, ez_setup.py provides a straightforward way to configure your environment without manually handling .egg files.

Right-click the link above and "Save As" ez_setup.py . download ez_setup.py

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python

Bootstrapping environments that lack pip entirely, such as Python 2.4 or 2.5 (requires setuptools 1.x ). On Linux or Mac systems, you can use

The script is a "bootstrap" file, meaning it automatically detects your Python version and pulls the correct setuptools package from the Python Package Index (PyPI) .

While modern Python users should simply use python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools , ez_setup.py is still useful for: curl https://bootstrap

Including the script in older CI/CD pipelines to ensure setuptools is present before running other commands.