error: invalid command 'bdist_egg'

Question

I am running:

Ubuntu 13.04

Python 2.7.4

I am trying this very simple tutorial on making a python egg, but am having difficulties when I actually try to run the command to make the egg.

    <me>@<compname>:~/Desktop/SANDBOX/somedir$ python setup.py bdist_egg
    usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
       or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
       or: setup.py --help-commands
       or: setup.py cmd --help

    error: invalid command 'bdist_egg'

What I know so far: When I enter the command,

    $ python setup.py --help-commands

I get back all the normal commands, but not the "extra commands". I have tried googling and searching Stack Overflow but have yet to yield any useful results. I understand I am most likely missing a dependency but I had believed I installed all required parts to make this work.

Any insight is much appreciated. Thanks.

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 26 '13 at 20:20

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bdist_egg is a command supplied by setuptools. Make sure you import from that project in setup.py, not from distutils:

from setuptools import setup

The tutorial does tell you to do this, but it appears you missed that part.

answered Aug 26 '13 at 20:20

Martijn Pieters

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You are absolutely correct. I had the line "from distutils.core import setup" by mistake, still leftover from the previous example they had. Many thanks. – LastTigerEyes Aug 26 '13 at 20:26
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The setup.py provided with pycrypto 2.6.1 did not have `bdist_egg` as a command. Adding the import line as above worked and I could build the egg file for it. – Fred Yankowski Apr 09 '15 at 16:02

Human · Answer 2 · 2014-02-06T06:16:19.150

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I had a similar issue then I realized that I need too install the setuptools first, oops:

Setup Tools Installation Instructions

edited Feb 06 '14 at 06:16

answered Feb 06 '14 at 05:27

Human

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error: invalid command 'bdist_egg'

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