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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:57:01 -0700 (PDT), Josh English
<Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:


> So I think the preferred search order is:
> 
> 1. a folder in the site-packages directory
> 2. an Egg file (still unsure why)
> 3. A .pth file
> 
> It's a strange juju that I haven't figured out yet. 
>
	.egg files, as I recall, are basically just ZIP compressed files --
and since Python can (again, as I recall) import from a ZIP compressed
file, .egg files get added to sys.path

	(just open an interactive Python session and do

import sys
sys.path

and review the results)
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