Comments on: Fixing Python’s “Python Eggs” Error http://davidwalsh.name/python-eggs Legendary scribbles about JavaScript, HTML5, AJAX, PHP, CSS, and ∞. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Daquan Wrighthttp://davidwalsh.name/python-eggs/comment-page-1#comment-23144 Daquan Wright Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:38:48 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4879#comment-23144 The languages I'm trying to learn right now are JavaScript, PHP, and Python. I have to agree, a list of errors like that suck.Well, at least you bypassed it. Where there's a problem, there is a solution. ;) The languages I’m trying to learn right now are JavaScript, PHP, and Python. I have to agree, a list of errors like that suck.

Well, at least you bypassed it. Where there’s a problem, there is a solution. ;)

]]> By: Eric Wendelinhttp://davidwalsh.name/python-eggs/comment-page-1#comment-16258 Eric Wendelin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:05:03 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4879#comment-16258 You might consider making the owner:group of that path the apache user (I think the default is "www-user").That may get you around the little env tweaking. HTH -Eric You might consider making the owner:group of that path the apache user (I think the default is “www-user”).

That may get you around the little env tweaking. HTH
-Eric

]]> By: David Walshhttp://davidwalsh.name/python-eggs/comment-page-1#comment-16252 David Walsh Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:47:47 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4879#comment-16252 @Pedro Santos: The dir was there and writable; I know I checked that. @Pedro Santos: The dir was there and writable; I know I checked that.

]]> By: Pedro Santoshttp://davidwalsh.name/python-eggs/comment-page-1#comment-16251 Pedro Santos Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:39:41 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4879#comment-16251 You have everything you need on the error:"The Python egg cache directory is currently set to: /Library/WebServer/.python-eggs Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? "Python tried to access that dir but it may not exist for example. When you change the dir to /tmp it worked because you were now pointing to a directory that exists and that you can write into. You have everything you need on the error:

“The Python egg cache directory is currently set to:
/Library/WebServer/.python-eggs
Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? ”

Python tried to access that dir but it may not exist for example. When you change the dir to /tmp it worked because you were now pointing to a directory that exists and that you can write into.

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