Database module & multithreading

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:19:51 -0300, Jon Ribbens  
<jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> escribió:

> In article <mailman.4936.1173614117.32031.python-list at python.org>,  
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>>>> I don't know, but stock Python 2.5 seems to stick mysterious '.egg'
>>>>> files in the site-packages directory when you install things.
>>>>
>>>> Which "stock" Python? Not the one from www.python.org...
>>>
>>> Yes, the one from www.python.org.
>>
>> Those .egg must come from other installed packages...
>
> My mistake, they are ".egg-info". And they certainly do come from
> stock Python 2.5 from www.python.org and not anything else. They
> are installed by distutils/command/install_egg_info, which is
> automatically called by 'python setup.py install'.

Ah! Those files contain metadata about the installed packages. See  
http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html , but I think the actual  
version is http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/ . Anyway, nowhere says  
that the PKG-INFO files are actually copied as packagename.egg-info

-- 
Gabriel Genellina