While I understand the desire not to add dependencies or complication of the lib, it would be nice for some developers to have setuptools support, falling back to simple distutils support when setuptools/distribute is not available.

Fixed in https://bitbucket.org/jaraco/httplib2/changesets/tip/branch(%22issue%20194%22)

This issue was closed by revision 55917da26876.

Fixed in http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/source/detail?r=481dc85248fdc97ca90f6afb3b8d7f52b8990f70

Thanks for the patches!