title: How to unzip python eggs?
body: <p>I'm trying to bundle some egg dependencies when using py2exe and as stated on the py2exe site, it doesn't work with those and I need to unzip them first. I've tried to first run <code>easy_install -m lxml</code> and then <code>easy_install --always-unzip lxml==2.2.2</code>, but it didn't work. Then I tried to set the unzipping behaviour to default by putting it to <code>distutils.cfg</code>. I didn't find the latter file, so I've made the <code>HOME</code> environment variable and created a <code>pydistutils.cfg</code> file there with this content:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[easy_install]
  zip_ok = 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but easy_install still doesn't unpack the eggs. What is the easiest way to get things done?</p>