Installing the Swampy Python module on Windows
Question: I am trying to install the [Swampy
module](http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/swampy/install.html) on
Python, but there is a lot that is unclear in the instructions given on the
site and the documentation. I have put the Swampy folder into the site-
packages folder of Python 2.7.1, but I don't know how to make the .pth file
that will get it installed so that the module can be imported. Can anyone give
me instructions on how to make one of these magical .pth files?


Answer: After you unzip your swampy-2.0 folder in the site-packages directory, you
only have to create, also in site-packages, a text file called `misite.pth`
(the only important thing here is the .pth extension, you can use whatever
filename you like). The .pth file should simply contain one line: the name of
your folder ('swampy-2.0'). That is all.

Python search for files with the extension .pth and put the directory names in
these files in the module search path. A path file can contain the name of one
or several folders, one per line.

