To install setuptools on your system, you need to first download ez_setup.py on your system from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools and then execute this from your command prompt as follows:

    $ python ez_setup.py

To test the installation of setuptools, open the Python shell and type the following:

> import setuptools 

If the preceding import does not give any error, then we have successfully installed setuptools.