Eggs are to Pythons as Pears are to PHP.

With the advent of Google AppEngine, I am starting to look into Python programming because, let's face it, PHP support on AppEngine might be a long way off (feature requests).

It would appear that a good way of distributing Python Modules is through eggs which, from what I can understand, offer similar functionality as PEAR packages.

PythonEggs documentation can be found here.