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I am working on a box which I don't have root access. However, there is a folder /share which would be accessed for everyone to read and write. I want to figure out a way to put python libraries so that everyone could access and use them. I figured out that I can put the egg file in the /share/pythonLib folder and in the python script. import sys sys.path.append("/share/pythonLib/foo.egg") import foo and it would work for everyone, however, I am not sure every library has egg version. For example, I am trying to install BeautifulSoup4 , however, there is only tar.gz file and I am not sure if

For example, installing IPython on Linux (where setuptools is not installed) I've got IPython installed in site-packages\IPython . Installing IPython on Windows (where IPython requires setuptools), after executing the same command python setup.py install I get IPython installed in site-packages\ipython-0.13.2-py2.7.egg\IPython Is there a way to install the module "old way" i.e. into site-packages\IPython ? I've discovered that python setup.py install --old-and-unmanageable does the job, but I am not sure it is a good way as --old-and-unmanageable is marked "Try not to use this!". I don't know

If I have a module, foo , in Lib/site-packages , I can just import foo and it will work. However, when I install stuff from eggs, I get something like blah-4.0.1-py2.7-win32.egg as a folder, with the module contents inside, yet I still only need do import foo , not anything more complicated. How does Python keep track of eggs? It is not just dirname matching as if I drop that folder into a Python installation without going through dist-utils, it does not find the module. To be clearer: I just installed zope. The folder name is "zope.interface-3.3.0-py2.7-win32.egg". This works: Python 2.7.1

I've installed cx_Oracle (repeatedly) and I just can't get it to work on my Intel Mac. How do I deactivate/uninstall it? You simply delete the .egg file On OS X they are installed into /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ - in that folder you should find a file named cx_Oracle.egg or similar. You can simple delete this file and it will be gone. One way of finding the file is, if you can import the module, simply displaying the repr() of the module: >>> import urllib >>> urllib <module 'urllib' from '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib.pyc'> >>> import

When I release a program, I usually just create a setup.py and put it on pypi. It's installable with pip, I can always share it easily with others. It works for me, and apparently for a lot of people. I see the benefit of making an exe, a deb or a rmp to easy sysadmin. But I really don't see the point of using eggs. Can you tell me what can I gain from it ? I also once read that eggs had downsides, but I can't find the article anymore. Could you describe to me what problems using this packaging format can cause ? Please note that I did saw this question , but the answer is also applicable to a

Where can you force pip to install as "flat" and not as "egg". For me it seems random. Sometimes it gets installed as egg, sometime as flat. pip help install shows only an option --egg which forces an egg installation. But I could not find a --flat option. The packages are from an own pypiserver, and uploaded like this: python setup.py sdist upload -r internal Output of pip during install: Best match: foo-client 2015.2 Downloading https://installserver:40443/pypi/packages/foo_client-2015.2.tar.gz Processing foo_client-2015.2.tar.gz Writing /home/bar_eins_daad/tmp/easy_install-z20B7b/foo_client