python setup.py problem [solved]

[Wichmann, Mats D]

>John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> IIRC, you need to install 'python-dev' which includes the 
>distutils package.
>> 
>> distutils is part of the python core distribution, though I guess it
>> gets broken out by some package managers. I don't know how 
>openSUSE does
>> it. But the error you are getting has nothing to do with 
>cElementTree or
>> paramiko.
>
>Yes, that was it.  OpenSUSE separates the two packages.

That's actually a long-standing "bug" (quoted because SuSE
don't seem to agree it's a bug), that you need the -dev
package to perform the basic Python functionality of
installing something....