Philip, Yes, the proper path should be c:\dev\XmlDB, which has the setup.py, xmldb subfolder, the docs subfolder, and example subfolder, and the other text files proscribed by the package development folder.
I could only get it to work, though, by renaming the xmldb folder in the site-packages directory, and deleting the egg file created in the site-packages directory. Why the egg file, which doesn't list any paths, would interfere I do not know. But with those changes, the xmldb.pth file is being read. So I think the preferred search order is: 1. a folder in the site-packages directory 2. an Egg file (still unsure why) 3. A .pth file It's a strange juju that I haven't figured out yet. Thanks for the hint. Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
