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I am trying to install some packages using pip on OSX 10.11.6 and it is always failing.

Whenever I try to install some package I am getting the error about missing extern. I have tried to fix the extern thing by ImportError: No module named extern but without success. 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.11-intel/egg/setuptools/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.11-intel/egg/setuptools/extern/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named extern

I have tried deleting all my setuptools file and in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ and reinstalling but it doesn't work still.

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  • Possible duplicate of [ImportError: No module named extern](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35446765/importerror-no-module-named-extern) – abcd Oct 05 '17 at 19:09
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    @dbliss The solution of reinstalling doesn't work for me that's why I asked it. I have mentioned that the past solution of reinstalling the setuptool doesn't work on my OSX. – learner Oct 05 '17 at 19:14
  • when an answer to an existing question does not help you, the solution is not to repost the same question. post a comment under the answer that does not help. – abcd Oct 05 '17 at 19:15
  • Well, the solutions on the earlier question had for Ubuntu. I had explicitly refered to the original question while posting my question and how it didn't solve my problem. I hope you atleast read the question before commenting or flagging duplicate in future. Thanks. – learner Oct 05 '17 at 19:58

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The issue of the problem was different version of distribute was troubling my installation.

I went to my python package directory 

 /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages

and fixed the problem by running the following command. I reverted my installation back to distribute_0.6.14 via 

python distribute_setup.py

This fixed my setuptools and now I am able to install and run things normally.

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