On Aug 27, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Josh English wrote: > 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
That might be implementation-dependent or it might even come down to something as simple as the in which order the operating system returns files/directories when asked for a listing. In other words, unless you can find something in the documentation (or Python's import implementation) that confirms your preferred search order observation, I would not count on it working the same way with all systems, all Pythons, or even all directory names. Good luck Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
