Python Thrift library can be installed with pip but not easy_install

Easy install appears to scan the web page for thrift and look for the package thrift-0.8.0.tgz, and incorrectly downloads the full thrift distribution, not the python package.

Shell session below shows it failing first with easy_install, and then succeeding with pip.

michel@ubuntu:~/tmp/t3$ virtualenv .
New python executable in ./bin/python
Installing distribute.............................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip...............done.
michel@ubuntu:~/tmp/t3$ bin/easy_install thrift
Searching for thrift
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/thrift/
Reading http://thrift.apache.org
Best match: thrift 0.8.0
Downloading https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/thrift/0.8.0/thrift-0.8.0.tar.gz
Processing thrift-0.8.0.tar.gz
error: Couldn't find a setup script in /tmp/easy_install-LkxF4S/thrift-0.8.0.tar.gz
michel@ubuntu:~/tmp/t3$ bin/pip install thrift
Downloading/unpacking thrift
Downloading thrift-0.8.0.tar.gz
Running setup.py egg_info for package thrift

Installing collected packages: thrift
Running setup.py install for thrift
building 'thrift.protocol.fastbinary' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/protocol/fastbinary.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/protocol/fastbinary.o
gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/protocol/fastbinary.o -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/thrift/protocol/fastbinary.so
/home/michel/tmp/t3/bin/python -O /tmp/tmpoCmXkd.py
removing /tmp/tmpoCmXkd.py

Successfully installed thrift
Cleaning up...