So I have rather casually installed a bunch of packages from PyPI using easy_install. It now contains 23 eggs, all of which get used a bit, but nowhere near as often as the standard lib or our internal stuff. Unsuccessfully stat()ing in all those egg directories was really starting to hammer our NFS server (we often start up hundreds of Python processes at a time), so I commented out the second import line at the end which serves to leave the eggs at the end of sys.path. Now every time I install a package I have to quickly edit easy-install.path to remove the import line the install process adds. I wonder though... Is there some alternate way to install stuff from PyPI which reduces the number of directories on sys.path? Maybe some post-processing step which takes the current set of eggs, creates a single directory into which they are all unfolded? That single directory could then be added to sys.path. Am I making sense? It's late. I might well not be. If so, ask me for a more complete explanation of the idea floating around my brain. -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/