python setuptools: “No module named version”

Question

I'm trying to install a package using python setup.py build , but it fails when it cannot find setuptools.version . In fact:

import setuptools
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/gpajer/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    import setuptools.version
ImportError: No module named version

Shouldn't there be a file .../anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/version.py ? There is no such file. Any ideas?

Answer 1

From https://anaconda.org/anaconda/setuptools :

To install this package with conda run:

conda install -c anaconda setuptools=21.2.1