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Asked: 2026-05-27T03:22:27+00:00

I’m writing some ETL scripts in Iron Python and have found that I could

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I’m writing some ETL scripts in Iron Python and have found that I could benefit from using the date parser in module dateutil. I know I can use my standard python library by pointing Iron Python at the appropriate location. My scripts, however, will likely run on a machine with Iron Python but without plain vanilla Python installed.

How can I install dateutil (or other standard Python modules) into my Iron Python library?

I’ve tried simply copying the .egg from the standard site-packages directory to the Iron Python site-packages directory, but this results in an ImportError when I import dateutil.

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  1. Editorial Team

    IronPython doesn’t support eggs (because it doesn’t support zipimport), but if you just place the folder containing the .py files in site-packages it should work (as long as it doesn’t use a C extension).

    Eggs are just zip files, so you may have to rename it to get at the .py files.

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