title: Installing python dateutil
body: <p>I tried to install python dateutil for my django tastypie but unsuccessful,</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-2f49784d6b27bae60cde1cff6a535663cf87497b">http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-2f49784d6b27bae60cde1cff6a535663cf87497b</a></p>
  
  <p>I downloaded the tar file in c:/python27 and unzipped it,</p>
  
  <p>I get the following error msg,</p>
  
  <pre><code>**C:\Python27\Scripts&gt;**easy_install dateutil-1.5
  Searching for dateutil-1.5
  Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/dateutil-1.5/
  Couldn't find index page for 'dateutil-1.5' (maybe misspelled?)
  Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
  Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
  No local packages or download links found for dateutil-1.5
  Best match: None
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in &lt;module&gt;
      load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c11', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 171
  2, in main
    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 170
  0, in with_ei_usage
    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 171
  6, in &lt;lambda&gt;
    File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
      dist.run_commands()
    File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
      self.run_command(cmd)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211
  , in run
    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 434
  , in easy_install
    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/package_index.py", line 475, in fe
  tch_distribution
  AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clone'
  </code></pre>