If you see Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 when Installing Python, then the setup tool on your computer might not be installed or updated.

In this post, we have covered some free tools to open Python scripts in Windows 10. You can view the content of a PY file and also edit it. Thus, these can also be used as Python file editor software.

Python modules are typically installed using a package manager called 'pip', which launches a 'setup.py' file that is made available by the developer of the package for installation purposes.

setup.py is normally used by Python to install the module it’s associated with, and can also be used to direct Python to compile C extensions for that module.