[Pydev-users] Egg files in site-packages

[Alexander V. <ale...@st...>]

Dear all,

I am relatively new to Python, so please accept my apologies if this is a stupid question. I have a number of libraries installed in my site-packages directory (/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages on a Mac). When I simply add this directory to the PYTHONPATH for my interpreter the modules are no found. Instead, I need to add each individual .egg file or directory. Ok, I can live with that. However, when I set up my PYTHONPATH like this I have a problem when running setup.py install for my project to deploy it to my machine: the entries for the .egg files I included in the PYTHONPATH are deleted from the easy-install.pth file! I am not sure why this is happening, can anyone shed light on this? Also, why does PyDev not find the .eggs in my site-package directory? Is this a bug or a feature?

Cheers,

Alex

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Alexander Voss
Lecturer in Software Engineering
School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
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