[Distutils] patch: solving the two major things that people dislike about setuptools, part 1

[Ben Finney]

Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew at stsci.edu> writes:

> In that case, the .egg file should go on sys.path immediately before
> the directory where it is stored. This ensures that a setuptools
> .egg file will always be discovered before a distutils-installed
> package/module in the same directory, but it will not override
> packages/modules that occur earlier in sys.path.

What of distributions installed via setuptools that are *not*
installed as eggs?

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Ben Finney