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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:49:01+00:00

What must I put into distutils.cfg to prevent easy_install from ever installing a zipped

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What must I put into distutils.cfg to prevent easy_install from ever installing a zipped egg? The compression is a nice thought, but I like to be able to grep through and debug that code.

I pulled in some dependencies with python setup.py develop . A closer look reveals that also accepts the –always-unzip flag. It would just be nice to set that as default.

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    the option is zip-ok, so put the following in your distutils.cfg:

    [easy_install]

# i don't like having zipped files.
zip_ok = 0
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