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)