[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
Thu Apr 10 01:27:50 CEST 2008

zooko wrote:

We determined that if you install the egg (with easyinstall or with a setuptools-powered ./setup.py install) in unzipped form then the source file names get rewritten so that your stack traces come with source lines.

That wouldn't have helped me with my problem, because I was trying to use the traceback to track down where the file was in the first place. I wasn't even aware that it was in an egg at first.

I wouldn't have been using eggs at all if I hadn't been tricked into it by some package telling me I had to use easy_install to install it. If I'd known that setuptools would make intrusive changes to the behaviour of my system, I would never have touched it.

Is there a way of uninstalling setuptools? I'd like to put my Python back the way it used to be.

-- Greg

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