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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 2472

How do I create Python eggs from distutils source packages?

I vaguely remember some sort of setuptools wrapper that would generate .egg files from distutils source. Can someone jog my memory?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 18496

Answers (2)

merwok
merwok

Reputation: 6907

setuptools monkey-patches some parts of distutils when it is imported. When you use easy_install to get a distutils-based project from PyPI, it will create an egg (pip may do that too). To do the same thing locally (i.e. in a directory that’s a code checkout or an unpacked tarball), use this trick: python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" bdist_egg.

Upvotes: 26

Anurag Uniyal
Anurag Uniyal

Reputation: 88777

Have you tried

python setup.py bdist_egg

Here I assume you are using setuptools instead of distutils i.e.

in setup.py instead of

from distutils.core import setup

use 

from setuptools import setup

Upvotes: 23

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