Installing works with easy_install but not pip for dogstatsd-python library - pip

Question

Installing library dogstatsd-python works using easy_install, but does not work using pip (in a virtual environment on Mac OS X)
Using easy_install:
$ easy_install dogstatsd-python
... (lot of output)
$ ls -alrt venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ | grep statsd
dogstatsd_python-0.5.2-py2.7.egg
Using pip:
$ pip install dogstatsd-python
Downloading/unpacking dogstatsd-python
Downloading dogstatsd-python-0.5.2.tar.gz
Running setup.py egg_info for package dogstatsd-python
Installing collected packages: dogstatsd-python
Running setup.py install for dogstatsd-python
Successfully installed dogstatsd-python
Cleaning up...
$ ls -alrt venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ | grep statsd
statsd.pyc
statsd.py
dogstatsd_python-0.5.2-py2.7.egg-info
Pip installed the .egg-info file, and then put the python files directly in the site-packages directory? (Note that the statsd.py file was not installed in any dogstatsd-python directory, but in the site-packages directory itself)
Is this an issue with the library or am I doing something wrong?
I have the following versions installed:
distribute 0.7.3
pip 1.4.1
setuptools 12.0.3
EDIT:
Here's the issue this is causing. The dogstatsd-python library works with the statsd libray.
Using pip:
$ pip install statsd
$ pip install dogstatsd-python
>>> from statsd import statsd
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name statsd
Using easy_install:
$ pip install statsd
$ easy_install dogstatsd-python
>>> from statsd import statsd
>>>
More info: https://github.com/DataDog/dogstatsd-python

Answer 1

dogstatsd and statsd conflict. Both end up installing a top-level statsd module. You can install https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dogstatsd-python-fixed/0.5.0 to move dogstatsd to a different name:
% pip install dogstatsd-python-fixed
% python
>>> from dogstatsd import statsd
>>>