Right place for third party modules (here: fixedpoint)

[Sibylle Koczian]

Hello,

for the first time since getting Python I can't get a third party module 
to work.

I got fixedpoint.0.1.2.tar.gz from SourceForge for use with KinterbasDB. 
After unpacking I had a directory called "fixedpoint" which I put under 
my site-packages directory. There are no installation instructions and 
just the one module fixedpoint.py (and some documentation and examples).

All of this under Windows XP, with Python 2.4.

Now I try to use the module, but

import fixedpoint

says "ImportError: No module named fixedpoint".

I suppose fixedpoint is no package as described in the tutorial and so 
"site-packages" might not be the right place for it. But where does it 
belong? I think it should go somewhere in the Python directory tree, not 
among my own scripts.

Thank you,
Koczian

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