The pip unzip command works wonders for this. It converts a zipped egg into a plain old package. There are two other situations where this can cause problems:

The pip unzip command works wonders for this. It converts a zipped egg into a plain old package. There are two other situations where this can cause problems: * The module is a C extension (which might not have the __file__ attribute defined). * The module is actually a namespace package (for example "zope" in "zope.package" and "zope.interface".