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“Egg” is a single-file importable distribution format for Python-related projects. “The Quick Guide to Python Eggs” aptly notes that “Eggs are to Pythons as Jars are to Java…” Eggs actually are richer than jars; they hold interesting metadata such as licensing details, release dependencies, …