How to easy_install egg plugin and load it without restarting application?

Question

I\'m creating an app that downloads and installs its own egg plugins, but I have a problem loading the egg after easy_install extracts it into place. This is how it works no

Answer 1

After some browsing of the documentation I think what you need to do is

pkg_resources.get_distribution(name).activate()

where name is the name of the package you just installed.