What am I supposed to do with an egg?!

[Morpheus]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:35:26 +0000, Duncan Booth wrote:

> "F. GEIGER" <fgeiger at datec.at> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry for not being clear. I did exec easy_install - no errors so far.
>> But the egg was still there. I'd expected, that it was converted into
>> .py-files somehow, which could be imported by my modules.
> 
> The .egg file should have been copied into your site-packages. Python can 
> import directly from a .egg file (it is a zip archive containing .py 
> files), or you can give easy_install an --always-unzip argument in which 
> case it creates a folder with the same name (including the .egg extension) 
> in site-packages and unzips the egg there.

Thanx a lot! "sudo python setup.py easy_install --always-unzip ." did the
trick

Kind regards
Morpheus


> 
> Forcing an unzip can be useful if you want to use tools like pydoc which
> don't understand imports from zip files.
> 
> If you run python interactively and "print sys.path" then you should see
> any egg files you have installed have been added to the path.