These following three blog posts helped me get my development environment setup quite easily, and fourth may have helped a little… http://blog.praveengollakota.com/47430655 http://mitchfournier.com/2010/06/25/getting-started-with-virtualenv-isolated-python-environments/ http://jessenoller.com/2009/03/16/so-you-want-to-use-python-on-the-mac/ http://www.fprimex.com/coding/python.html In summary, sudo python ez_setup.py // bootÂstrap setupÂtools and easy_install sudo python setup.py install // grab the tarball here sudo pip install virtualenv sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper Add to ~/.bash_profile [...]