Python 3 setuptools on mac

Question

I've installed Python 3.2 on my Mac, and I want to install some packages using setuptool's easy_install.

Alas, the only version of easy_install I have are (using command-line autocomplete):

easy_install      easy_install-2.5  easy_install-2.6

How can I install packages for Python 3.2?

Addendum

I've followed Thomas K's advice:

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py

But no luck, easy_install still installs Python 2.6 packages:

$ easy_install beautifulsoup
Searching for beautifulsoup
Best match: BeautifulSoup 3.2.0
Processing BeautifulSoup-3.2.0-py2.6.egg

How do I force easy_install to retrieve Python 3.2 packages instead?

Answer 1

You need to install setuptools - or rather, the fork called 'distribute', since the original setuptools doesn't support Python 3.

There are instructions here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute#installation-instructions

Answer 2

Like so:

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python3.2  distribute_setup.py
        ^^^

Or even:

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ /the/path/to/the/python/where/you/want/it/installed/bin/python distribute_setup.py