xlrd question

[John Machin]

On Aug 5, 7:31 pm, has <has.te... at virgin.net> wrote:
>
> Nope,  DistUtils will copy all modules to site-packages as part of the
> installation procedure. If you're a developer you'll probably want to
> keep the original distribution around as it'll contain documentation,
> examples, etc. which you'll want to refer to when writing your own
> scripts. End-users of your scripts won't need it though.

xlrd installs sub-folders called "docs" and "examples", containing you-
guess-what. The runxlrd.py script will be parked in a "scripts" folder
somewhere. There should been no need to retain the folder into which
the distribution was unpacked and from which it was installed.