Permission Denied On Httplib2 Install

I'm trying to install the httplib2 library for Python so I can use it to interact with the Twitter but I get the following error in the console when I try to install via 'python se

Solution 1:

Use sudo to run setup.py as root:

% sudo python setup.py install

Solution 2:

Some say that using sudo on python setup.py install can be dangerous. Instead, run sudo chown -R $USER /Library/Python/2.7.

TL;DR; Using Virtualenv also happens to avoid this problem.