Setuptools 0.7.3 does not install on Python 3.2

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Originally reported by: the_drow (Bitbucket: the_drow, GitHub: Unknown)

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#!python

 pip install https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads/distribute-0.7.3.zip --upgrade
Downloading/unpacking https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads/distribute-0.7.3.zip
  Downloading distribute-0.7.3.zip (145kB): 145kB downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads/distribute-0.7.3.zip

Downloading/unpacking setuptools>=0.7 (from distribute==0.7.3)
  Downloading setuptools-0.7.4.tar.gz (755kB): 755kB downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package setuptools
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
      File "setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
        from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
      File "setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module>
        from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
      File "setuptools/dist.py", line 103
        except ValueError, e:
                         ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>

  File "setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>

    from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library

  File "setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module>

    from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched

  File "setuptools/dist.py", line 103

    except ValueError, e:

                     ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /home/omer/.virtualenvs/outcomes/build/setuptools
Storing complete log in /home/omer/.pip/pip.log

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/24

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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This issue is fixed with the upcoming setuptools 0.8 and updated pip, to be released . The distribute 0.7.3 is sufficient to upgrade on Python 2, but the older pip is still subject to the 2to3 upgrade issue. See pypa/pip#986 for details.