'easy_install' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

I couldn't run easy_install, even as setuptools are already installed. By the way, I could see the easy_install.py file under the ...\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command directory but there is no easy_install.exe file under .../Scripts directory. So the problem is not about PATH not added as there's no .exe to be found.

• setuptools 58.0.4
• python 3.8.8
• Windows 10

I wonder is there a way to directly invoke the easy_install.py to install .egg package?

Answer 1

The solution is to invoke easy_install from within a python script (credit to GitHub user @emailweixu source).

from setuptools import setup

if __name__ == '__main__':
    setup( script_args = [ '-q', 'easy_install'
                         , '-v', 'PATH_TO_YOUR_EGG_FILE'
                         ]
         )

Note that this hacky solution is not going to work in the future, when setuptools removes easy_install from its code package altogether.