Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> added the comment: On 2010-05-24, at 3:46 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Can you please provide a reproducible bug report? I have no idea what "paste" > is or how it got into your .local folder. Please structure the bug report as > follows: > > 1. this is what you did > 2. this is what happened > 3. this is what you expected to happen instead I was not sure if this is a bug .. which is why I was waiting till the completion of my investigation ... > > Installing http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Paste through distribute's setup.py > install --user, I get > > py> paste > <module 'paste' from > '/home/martin/.local/lib/python/2.7/site-packages/Paste-1.7.3.1-py2.7.egg/paste/__init__.pyc'> This is what I found: setuptools/Distribute does some namespace magic to make these namespace packages work in the absence of __init__.py. You should be able to reproduce this with --root option (or --single-version-multi-installed or some such thing) in "setup.py install" command to prevent .egg'fying the installed packages. So this is not a bug in Python; it is an expected behaviour of setuptools-installed packages that do not use .egg/ package structure. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8812> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com