[Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

[P.J. Eby]

At 02:17 AM 4/20/2009 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>3. Namespace packages require pkg_resources?
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>There's a way of doing it with pkgutils, but in some way that I 
>don't understand, pkg_resources does it better.

pkgutil doesn't support zip files (or any other non-filename 
importers/path strings), later additions to sys.path, nested 
namespaces...  and that may not be a complete list.