Are you sure this is what you want to do? It seems an odd objective for a preliminary effort.
Forgive me if I am reading this wrong, but I am concerned that you think you need to do all this work to use the package. If so, you are asking the wrong questions. Please look into the PYTHONPATH environment variable and the sys.path list within Python. mt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list