Python Eggs Just install in *ONE* place? Easy to uninstall?

[Jorge Godoy]

seberino at spawar.navy.mil wrote:

> It appears that apps distributed as Python Eggs are either a single
> compressed
> blob in site-packages directory or a directory under site-packages
> directory.
> 
> Is this ALWAYS true?  So by just erasing stuff under site-packages
> I can do a COMPLETE uninstallation of an Egg?

They might have been added to some ".pth" file there as well, so you'd have
to remove the egg reference from it.  Also, they don't need to be installed
only in one place, you can install them somewhere else.

There are uninstall instructions at the documentation:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

For other Python Eggs information you might want to check:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs 


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