This one I do not understand -- does anyone have any suggestions?
Newly compiled untweaked Python2.5 is not processing .pth files (as far as I can see _any_ .pth files in site-packages. Example:. +++++++++++++++ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages$ ls setup* -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 306K Mar 8 20:44 setuptools-0.6c3-py2.5.egg -rw-rw-rw- 1 root staff 29 Mar 8 23:57 setuptools.pth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages$ cat setuptools.pth ./setuptools-0.6c3-py2.5.egg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages$ python2.5 Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 8 2007, 22:34:54) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import setuptools Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named setuptools >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/usr/local/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5', '/usr/ local/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/ usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site- packages'] >>> +++++++++++++++++ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list