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Based on the instuctions in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Installation#Download_Pywikibot

The easiest way to download Pywikibot is to use the latest nightly release. Just download the pywikibot zip file to your computer and decompress the file – there is no further installation required.

So I downloaded the core.zip file. But where do I decompress it? I thought it should go into

Python27/Lib/

so I created a pywikibot directory there and put the decompressed file tree into that directory, but my attempts to run

python setup.py build python setup.py install

both produce the error message

error: package directory 'pywikibot' does not exist

I already tried asking on the IRC #pywikibot channel but received no response. Thanks Kerry Raymond (talk) 05:26, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

This sounds like a good question for the talk page of the link that you have provided (if the instructions on the corresponding wikipage are unclear). How long did you wait for an answer on #pywikibot? Normally they are pretty active if you are lucky with the timezones.