Programming Forums - Hacking Around With Module Imports

Sorry about all these questions, but there's really very little resources on the Internet for such obscure things as these... I'm pretty helpless again.

Here goes:

I'm running some Python CGI scripts on a virtual server, which I don't have total control over. It has Python 2.4 installed, but it does not have MySQLdb installed.

Since the Python directory has limited write permission, I can not install modules on the server's Python.

I managed to hack around this by simply placing the contents of the folder "MySQLdb" in the same directory as the script I'm running.

However, the next problem is my script needs "setuptools", another Python module, installed. But this is where the problem arises.

I try the same method: put the source files in the same folder as the script. However, in one of the files of "setuptools" I get this error:

__file__ = pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__,'_mysql.pyd')



del __bootstrap__, __loader__



NameError: global name '__loader__' is not defined

Which is apparently the error for when setuptools is not properly installed.

I tried a different method: install it locally, go into lib/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg, and place that in the same directory as the CGI scripts. However, still the same error.

Is there any other way I could fake an install of a module without installing it directly to the Python 2.4 folder? I need a way to use the "pkg_resources.py" file from setuptools in my CGI script...