Thanks, I already did this 1h ago. Now the question is why there was the need for a fork and why there is no information on setuptools page regarding this. Is there any reason for having two packages setuptools/distribute? Thanks again.

Distribute is a fork of setuptools that includes Python 3 support. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
You can simply switch to using Distribute instead. It also includes support for supporting Python 2 and Python 3 for the same project: http://packages.python.org/distribute/python3.html

Is there any plan regarding Python 3. setuptools should be one of the first packages being ported to py3k. Not doing this will prevent others from doing the switch.

Copy of issue 56; see file 35 for patch