Installing simplejson issues

[blwatson at gmail.com]

On Mar 29, 6:42 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:54:36 -0300, <blwat... at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > I tried to add the directory "/<somepath>/simplejson" to my sys.path
> > in the interpreter, hoping that the call to import simplejson would
> > work if the dir was there, even though simplejson.py did not exist is
> > that dir, but the encoder, decoder, jsonfilter and scanner .py files
> > were all there.
>
> > My problem is that the call "import simplejson" fails.  How can I make
> > that call work?
>
> simplejson is a package (a directory with an __init__.py), not a module;  
> don't look for simplejson.py
> Its *parent* directory must be in sys.path for Python to find it. Try  
> copying the simplejson directory below site-packages (which should be  
> already in sys.path)
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Gabriel -

First, thanks for the help.  You have solved one problem but created a
new one.  Isn't that always how it works?

So I copied over the dir, and now I get this error when trying to
import simplejson:

<being error>
The following error occurred while trying to extract file(s) to the
Python egg
cache:

  [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/bwatson/.python-eggs/
simplejson-1.8.1-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg-tmp/simplejson/tmpJVSqa_.
$extract'

The Python egg cache directory is currently set to:

  /Users/bwatson/.python-eggs

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?
You can
change the cache directory by setting the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment
variable to point to an accessible directory.
<end error>

So I went looking for that egg...the following exists in my frameworks
dir:

simplejson-1.8.1-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg

I hate eggs...I am stuck again.  Any ideas?