title: Why am I getting an invalid syntax easy_install error?
body: <p>I need to use easy_install to install a package.  I installed the enthought distribution, and popped into IDLE to say: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; easy_install SQLobject
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?  <code>easy_install</code> certainly exists, as does the package.  help('easy_install') gives me some basic help.  <code>import easy_install</code> doesn't change things either.</p>
  
  <p>Any hints?  I know I'm missing something really basic here.</p>