[Python-Dev] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 9 01:36:20 CEST 2008


zooko wrote:

1. You can't conveniently install eggs into a non-system directory, such as ~/my-python-stuff.

2. If you allow even a single egg to be installed into your PYTHONPATH, it will change the semantics of your PYTHONPATH.

I discovered another annoyance with eggs the other day -- it seems that tracebacks referring to egg-resident files contain the pathname of some temporary directory that existed when the egg was being packaged, rather than the one it actually exists in at run time.

-- Greg



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