“Egg” is a single-file importable distribution format for Python-related projects.
“The Quick Guide to Python Eggs” 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, etc.
- 参考:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2051192/what-is-a-python-egg