easy_install can't install package

I'm trying to write a setup.py file for my python project:

import os from setuptools import setup, find_packages here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) requires = [ 'requests', 'simplejson', 'logging', 'rfc3987', ] setup(name='xxxxxxx', version='0.1', description='xxxxxxx API', url='https://github.com/xxxxxxxx', packages=find_packages(), include_package_data=True, zip_safe=False, install_requires=requires, ) 

When I execute it I'm getting this error:

Searching for rfc3987 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/rfc3987/ Best match: rfc3987 1.3.1 Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/rfc3987/rfc3987-1.3.1.tar.gz#md5=397b1c1cd8b934269e53a621d56d9ed2 Processing rfc3987-1.3.1.tar.gz Running rfc3987-1.3.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-AYV_bv/rfc3987-1.3.1/egg-dist-tmp-G8Kbay Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('distribute==0.6.10', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1715, in main with_ei_usage(lambda: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1696, in with_ei_usage return f() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1719, in <lambda> distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 236, in run self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 472, in easy_install return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 502, in install_item dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 681, in install_eggs return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 958, in build_and_install self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 947, in run_setup run_setup(setup_script, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 29, in run_setup lambda: execfile( File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 70, in run return func() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 31, in <lambda> {'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'} File "setup.py", line 4, in <module> File "/tmp/easy_install-AYV_bv/rfc3987-1.3.1/rfc3987.py", line 324, in <module> File "/tmp/easy_install-AYV_bv/rfc3987-1.3.1/rfc3987.py", line 323, in <genexpr> File "/tmp/easy_install-AYV_bv/rfc3987-1.3.1/rfc3987.py", line 319, in _interpret_unicode_escapes ValueError: zero length field name in format 

If I try just easy_install rfc3987 I'm getting the same error.

Are there any ways to go around this?