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I've been trying to install SQLAlchemy for a project. I've tried 3 different computers running Windows 7, Vista, and 7 with identical python32 installations. My first issue was an inability to execute easy_install on any of these computers for different reasons. Next, running the included setup.py script didn't work, even after running distribute_setup.py and running the script from the command prompt as "python setup.py install". Finally, trying to manually run the sa2to3.py script manually on the sqlalchemy folder did not work; it spat out an error message about not being able to find the folder, even when given an absolute path.

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    wellcome to SO. `Didn't work` doesn't give a clear view of what is happening. Please, be more precise, give details of what you did and the actual, full errors or traceback you got. Installing SQLAlchemy in win 7 does not need any special permit, Just with `python setup.py install`. Take into account that in the sqlalchemy docs they say: **setuptools is not supported on Python 3 at the time of this writing**. So easy_install could not work. – joaquin Nov 13 '11 at 07:00

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First of all, don't use easy_install. pip is much more reliable.

Try installing it and see how things go: How do I install pip on Windows?

Then, just install your package (search for cmd in the Search Bar on the Start Menu and run it as an Administrator):

pip install sqlalchemy
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