I created a Python egg; now what?

Question

I've finally figured out how to create a Python egg and gotten it to work. Now... what do I do with it? How do I use it? How do I ensure that everything was correctly included? (Simple steps please... not just redirection to another site. I've googled, but it's confusing me, and I was hoping someone could explain it in a couple of simple bullet points or sentences.)

Edit:

I asked this question a couple of weeks ago, and I'm clarifying now in the hope of getting clearer answers... basically, I have an egg, I want to take it to another machine and be able to use it and import modules from it from my (other, unrelated) code. How do I do this?

Answer 1

I'd advise only using python setup.py sdist to create zips and/or tarballs, and skip eggs.

If you want to look at the egg it is a zip file; you can use unzip -v MyEgg-0.1.egg and see its contents to see if includes all the files you expect. You can also try installing it. Use virtualenv to create a new environment (use --no-site-packages to make it isolated) and try installing it into that environment, like:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages test-env
$ ./test-env/bin/easy_install path/to/MyEgg-0.1.egg
$ ./test-env/bin/python

And then see if you can import it and use your package like you expect. You can do all the same things to test an sdist too.