Attempt to fix travis build

.travis.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ python:
   - "2.7"
 # command to install dependencies, e.g. pip install -r requirements.txt --use-mirrors
 install:
-  - pip install --user --upgrade pip setuptools
+#  - pip install --user --upgrade pip setuptools
   - pip install --user -r requirements.txt
   - pip install --user pytest pytest-pep8 pytest-flakes nose # we still need nose for the _eq functions for now
 # command to run tests, e.g. python setup.py test