title: Python - How can I install xlutils?
body: <p>I am using Python 2.5 (and need to stay with that) and have already downloaded xlrd 0.8.0 and xlwt 0.7.2, and they both seem to be working OK.</p>
  
  <p>I will be needing to read from and write to Excel spreadsheets, and so believe I will need to add xlutils as well.  The problem is, I can't install it so far.</p>
  
  <p>I have pip and tried the simple:</p>
  
  <pre><code>pip install xlutils
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That ran and downloaded xlutils, but got hung up with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Downloading/unpacking xlutils
    Downloading xlutils-1.6.0.tar.gz (54Kb): 54Kb downloaded
    Running setup.py egg_info for package xlutils
  Downloading/unpacking xlrd&gt;=0.7.2 (from xlutils)
    Downloading xlrd-0.9.2.tar.gz (167Kb): 167Kb downloaded
    Running setup.py egg_info for package xlrd
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "&lt;string&gt;", line 14, in &lt;module&gt;
        File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\xlutils-1.6.0\build\xlrd\setup.py", li
  ne 8, in &lt;module&gt;
          raise Exception("This version of xlrd requires Python 2.6 or above. "
      Exception: This version of xlrd requires Python 2.6 or above. For older versions of Python, you can use the 0.8 series.
  ... [snipping some]
  ----------------------------------------
  Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in C:\Python25\Lib\sit
  e-packages\xlutils-1.6.0\build\xlrd
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So then I figured it was trying to download a newer xlrd (which I <em>can't use</em> with Python 2.5) and since I already have xlrd installed, it breaks on that.</p>
  
  <p>I then tried to just download xlutils from <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlutils" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlutils</a>, and then unzipped it with 7zip, put the xlutils folder under Python25>Lib>site-packages, cd'd there, and did:</p>
  
  <pre><code>python setup.py install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that gives me this error in the cmd window:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\xlutils-1.6.0&gt;python setup.py install
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "setup.py", line 5, in &lt;module&gt;
      from setuptools import setup
  ImportError: No module named setuptools
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>So how can I install this?</strong></p>