I'm trying to use a custom version of mongoengine. I cloned the git repo and put the directory on my PYTHONPATH, but python is still importing the system's installed version. Looking at sys.path, it's obvious why:
$ echo $PYTHONPATH /home/roy/songza:/home/roy/lib/mongoengine >>> pprint.pprint(sys.path) ['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/selenium-2.0a5-py2.6.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.6.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pymongo-1.9-py2.6-linux-x86_64.eg g', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.5.2-py2.6.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mongoengine-0.5.2-py2.6.egg', '/home/roy/songza', '/home/roy/lib/mongoengine', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages'] The system eggs come before my path. I found http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2006-July/006520.html in the archives; it explains that eggs come before PYTHONPATH, but doesn't explain how to get around this problem. I emphatically agree with Michael Bayer who said: > I cant think of a possible scenario where a path would explicitly > exist in PYTHONPATH, non-egg or egg, where the user would still like the > system-wide installation to take precedence So, is there any way to get my local copy of mongoengine loaded instead of the system egg? I could probably import sys, and do an egg-ectomy on sys.path before importing mongoengine, but that's too gross to contemplate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list