I package things like Quixote, SimpleTAL, ReportLab, etc. for internal
development and have them in a yum repository.  There are packages
available for RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 2.
The main change to these packages is that they largely follow the Fedora
guidelines and have all been renamed to fit the "python-$packagename"
guidelines, where $packagename is the name of the package you actually
import, not the upstream name.

Of interest to folks on this list specifically, the python-quixote
package includes a patch to adds two options:
quixote-document-root
quixote-script-name

These options were added to help resolve some of the mod_python/quixote
problems.  quixote-document-root specifies the actual directory in which
the python sources lie (to be used inside a  or 
directive). quixote-script-name specifies the part of the URL path that
refers to the quixote script (for use inside  and
 directives).  If neither option is present, or you don't
use mod_python, there is no difference between Quixote-1.0 and the
python-quixote package.

If you are interested in the RPMS, you can add the following to your
/etc/yum.conf:

For RedHat users:
[shahms]
name=Shahms' RedHat RPMS
baseurl=http://shahms.mesd.k12.or.us/yum/redhat/$releasever

For Fedora Core users:
[shahms]
name=Fedora Shahms - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://shahms.mesd.k12.or.us/yum/fedora/$releasever

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Shahms King