Odd files; just left behind?

[Robin Becker]

John J. Lee wrote:
> Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> writes:
> 
>> I see a folder .python-eggs in my home directory on one of our servers
>> with various .so files
>>
>> ~/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.3-freebsd-6.1-SECURITY-i386.egg-tmp/_mysql.so
>>
>> are these just left behind from some install process?
> 
> Ah, it's about the resource extraction feature of setuptools.  It's
> possible for zipped eggs to contain resources that have to be
> extracted to the filesystem.  It puts them in the directory you saw
> (or somewhere else -- see the docstring in my other reply).
> 
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#resource-extraction
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-resource-extraction
.....
Thanks John, but why not clean up?

-- 
Robin Becker