To “get an egg” from web.py just download and untar the archive from the website and edit setup.py:
#from distutils.core import setup try: from setuptools import setup, find_packages except ImportError: from ez_setup import use_setuptools use_setuptools() from setuptools import setup, find_packages
You obviously need setuptools installed or at least ez_setup (if you don’t know that you won’t need an egg either 
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Then just do:
>setup.py bdist_egg
and the egg will be found in folder dist…
Wonder why they only use distutils which cannot build eggs by itself. Anyway it is simple.
I just needed the egg as I try to minimize the need of installed libs and just pack it with an web.py application.
