Ben> I'm unclear on how .pth files work. Some posts imply they can be Ben> arbitrarily named, as long as they include the .pth extension, and Ben> can exist anywhere in the current sys.path. Other documentation Ben> seems to imply that they must be named <package>.pth, although I'm Ben> not sure what "package" it would be named after.
<package>.pth naming is just a convention so you can easily sort out the association for each of multiple pth files. I have a mojam.pth file but no "mojam" package on my server. Works just fine. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list