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Asked: 2026-05-17T02:51:56+00:00

I’m attempting to add a video extension to the Python Markdown-2.0.3-py2.7.egg Things aren’t working,

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I’m attempting to add a video extension to the Python Markdown-2.0.3-py2.7.egg

Things aren’t working, so I want to use pdb debugger to see what’s going on.

I can’t seem to find the source code to insert pdb.

The egg is located here: 

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Markdown-2.0.3-py2.7.egg

Using iPython, I can view the Python source code of the Markdown module and it’s path: 

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Markdown-2.0.3-py2.7.egg/markdown/__init__.py

But I can’t navigate to that file, nor can open it in a Text Editor.

I’m guessing the source code I’m viewing may be generated from the compiled egg.
However, it seems there must be some way of accessing the code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    An .egg file is a simple ZIP archive, you can extract the files using any ZIP-enabled application if you want. That being said, you can install an .egg into a folder for development by passing the develop option to setup.py. This will make setuptools use the sources in the specified folder and just link to them by a file in your package path.

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