error: can't combine user with prefix, exec_prefix/home, or install_(plat)base

[jeffhammond]

What am I doing wrong here?

TTC-github jrhammon$ python setup.py install --user 
running install
error: can't combine user with prefix, exec_prefix/home, or install_(plat)base

[springer13]

I need to look into this. It occurs on my Mac as well. I am using "python setup.py install" instead, this works for me. please let me know if this resolves the issue for you.

[jeffhammond]

Yeah, that works, except for the part where it perturbs /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages. I am obsessive about installation isolation, regardless of how antithetical this is to the Python Way.