Is It Installed or Not?

[Notes for a while back, as can be seen by the version numbering]

Hmm. What could be the problem here?

sholden@bigboy ~
$ easy_install-2.5 SQLAlchemy
Searching for SQLAlchemy
Best match: sqlalchemy 0.4.2dev-r3811
Processing sqlalchemy-0.4.2dev_r3811-py2.5.egg
sqlalchemy 0.4.2dev-r3811 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Using c:\python25\lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy-0.4.2dev_r3811-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for SQLAlchemy
Finished processing dependencies for SQLAlchemy

sholden@bigboy ~
$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43)
[GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sqlalchemy    
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: No module named sqlalchemy
>>>

Simple, once realized: the easy_install I was running was based on Python for Windows, so running it under Cygwin still reported the state of the Windows installation! That's one slight down-side to Cygwin picking up so mcuh from the Windows side of things: sometimes it gets holds of things it shouldn't.