setup.py fails trying to download setuptools-0.6c8-py2.6.egg from a dead link (old ez-setup.py)

[blep]

Running from the latest released tarball:
launchpadlib-1.5.1>python setup.py install

Fails with:
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Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.6.egg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 22, in <module>
    ez_setup.use_setuptools()
  File "C:\perso\tc\devtools\sf-tarball-sync\launchpadlib-1.5.1\ez_setup.py", line 95, in use_setuptools
    return do_download()
  File "C:\perso\tc\devtools\sf-tarball-sync\launchpadlib-1.5.1\ez_setup.py", line 89, in do_download
    egg = download_setuptools(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay)
  File "C:\perso\tc\devtools\sf-tarball-sync\launchpadlib-1.5.1\ez_setup.py", line 150, in download_setuptools
    src = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  File "c:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "c:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 389, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "c:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 502, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "c:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 427, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "c:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 361, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 510, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
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Following the instruction, I tried to download the file manually in the browser but it seems that it no longer exist:
http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/
Only the file:
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg
exists. (c9 instead of c8).

Downloading the above file and placing it in the directory does not work.

[blep (blep)]

I found a work-around. Replacing ez_setup.y with the latest version from:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
solved the problem.

Updating the installation instruction with the above work-around.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

There is a new ez-setup in the LP download cache.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

launchpadlib hasn't used ez_setup.py at all since version 1.10.3. For local installation, use pip to install into a virtualenv instead, or use tox for local testing.