John J. Lee wrote: > Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I see a folder .python-eggs in my home directory on one of our servers >> with various .so files >> >> ~/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.3-freebsd-6.1-SECURITY-i386.egg-tmp/_mysql.so >> >> are these just left behind from some install process? > > Ah, it's about the resource extraction feature of setuptools. It's > possible for zipped eggs to contain resources that have to be > extracted to the filesystem. It puts them in the directory you saw > (or somewhere else -- see the docstring in my other reply). > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#resource-extraction > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-resource-extraction ..... Thanks John, but why not clean up?
-- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
