What is the Python egg cache (PYTHON_EGG_CACHE)?
From my investigations it turns out that some eggs are packaged as zip files, and are saved as such in Python’s site-packages directory. These zipped eggs need to be unzipped before they can be executed, so are expanded into the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE directory which by default is ~/.python-eggs (located in the user’s home directory). If this … Read more