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Author takluyver
Recipients Ben.thelen, ezio.melotti, ned.deily, roger.serwy, serhiy.storchaka, takluyver, terry.reedy, v+python
Date 2012-11-17.11:52:48
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It seems pretty arbitrary and newcomer-unfriendly to decide that Python doesn't support running setup.py inside IDLE.

Exhibit A: confused newcomer trying to install distribute, getting unhelpful error message.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13368040/ipython-installation-on-3-3-x64-errors
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2012-11-17 11:52:48takluyversetrecipients: + takluyver, terry.reedy, ned.deily, ezio.melotti, roger.serwy, v+python, Ben.thelen, serhiy.storchaka
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