Egg deinstallation

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Jan 12 09:44:07 EST 2009


mk wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I googled and googled and can't seem to find the definitive answer: how
> to *properly* deinstall egg? Just delete the folder and/or .py and .pyc
> files from Lib/site-packages? Would that break anything in Python
> installation or not?

It depends on how you installed it. If it is done via
setuptools/easy_install, you should also clean up the 

site-packages/easy-install.pth

file.

Diez



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